Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:59:42 +0100
Frank Mehnert <frank.mehn...@sun.com> wrote:
Hi,
we've decided to close the vbox-users mailing list as the traffic is
very low and the VBox forums at http://forums.virtualbox.org/ are a
better place to ask related questions. Of course, before opening a
new topic you should search the forum if your answer is already there.
The vbox-dev mailing list will remain.
Kind regards,
Frank
Honestly this sounds like walking the way to hell for me. Remember the days
when mailing-lists "were" newsgroups? newsgroups were trivial to host and did
produce only the amount of traffic that people really interested in the
corresponding group needed. Then suddenly everything had to be a mailing-list,
traffic was wasted, administration is sh*tty because people tend to not
unsubscribe so you get lots of dead emails in almost every list. But that is
not worse enough, now we have to go to web-based forums that combine just
every thinkable disadvantage.
Hey, let's use twitter like some android guys do .... :-((
--
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert
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Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring
For what it's good I agree with everyone pleading to let this mailing
list exist.
Forum's are hell just like several others pointed out. and about low
traffic: There are approx. between 5 and 20 mails a day. It shows the
fact that the product is rather stable and most questions are
business-like and to the point. Spare me the mailing lists (and forums
are 100 % worse) which people use for their personal blog or to rant
about non-list related subjects (look in the ubuntu-mailing list for
that matter!!).
I would like to plea for a rational decision, but I fear that the new
owners of Sun think only in $$ and have the idea that personnel must
make billable hours and not devote time to lowly customers (which
answering mail amounts to). I personally am convinced that it is a
management decision. not from the technicians who do all the work.
Well, Frank and the other Sun contributors to the mailing list, thanks
for the invaluable advice and insight I have seen in your answers and we
have to find other ways to get our questions answered.
Joep
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