This step is fairly similar to what VMware have done with great success. There are however some important differences (even though both VMware and CheckPoint have chosen Jive forum software).
1. VMware had news groups that were fairly active, quite similar to what this mailing list used to be a few years ago. 2. They started their web based forums about 4 years ago, but left the news groups active. 3. After they announced the Forum Rewards program (http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=7591&start=0&tstart=0) back in 10/2004, more and more users moving from the news groups to the web based forums. A year later the news groups were almost dead (http://www.virtualization.info/2005/09/vmware-newsgroups-almost-dead.html) 4. In may 2006 the news groups were silently shut down as they were almost dead (http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=403660) This voluntary move of users had great success and /me too have received a VMware T-shirt for postings in their forums. Lars > hi, > > I also prefer keeping the list. if the forum is more useful > than the list users will start using the forum and > unsubscribe from the list ... > and then you can turn it off :-) > > br > reinhard ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================
