Re: [Mingw-users] Mailing List/Forum Rationalisation

[Wells, R. K. <ROG...@sa...>]

Make it ten.  I absolutely agree to drop the fora.


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-----Original Message-----
From: min...@li...
[mailto:min...@li...] On Behalf Of Keith
Marshall
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 5:47 PM
To: MinGW Users List; Brian Dessent
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Mailing List/Forum Rationalisation

On Thursday 15 June 2006 11:00 pm, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Keith MARSHALL wrote:
> > > The best solution IMO would be to disable those awful sourceforge
> > > forums and tell people to post to the list.
> >
> > ...this is precisely the solution I had in mind.  I would post one
> > final message to each forum, advising users that the facility will
> > no longer be supported, and that support will continue to be provided
> > by subscription to the list only; I would then disable further posts
> > to the fora.
>
> Ping?  Any desire in moving forward with this (brilliant) idea?

Well, I'd hoped for a rather less apathetic response from the MinGW 
Community; out of a subscriber population of ~1100, only nine responses 
is extremely disappointing :-(

Many thanks to the nine who did respond.  Not all of these expressed a 
firm opinion on the continuation of the fora, but none came down in 
favour of keeping them.  Indeed, I had one response from a former 
subscriber, monitoring the list through gmane, who had cancelled his 
subscription because he found the disjointed bombardment of the list by 
forum postings just too nauseating.

So, since I myself dislike these forum postings, and in the absence of 
any voice speaking up in their defence, I will discontinue them soon.  If 
*you* hold a contrary POV, then this is your last chance to speak up, but 
please do so quickly; leave it another week, and you will be too late!

Regards,
Keith. 


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