Thanks for the reply Burton. This is good news to hear. These are my thoughts:
- Membership--yes...I do like the membership idea. I think it's most of our fears that this list gets thrown in with all of the forum trollers that are out there. - Moderation--Also yes....If we keep this list, I would like to see more moderation, if possible. But...if the move to forums must be made, the proper moderation will keep things on point and helpful to all of us. - Forum Server Performance--I have seen an improvement to the forums and can understand why you would want to take advantage of that. - I think the main idea behind the mailing list (at least for me) was the ability to get an email when Valve posted on it. We used to get "heads up's" when a update was incoming. To be able to get this on my blackberry and inform my staff to get ready....well, that was very very useful in keeping a busy set of servers. Having forums....it will be more difficult. Unless....there was a usergroup on the forums devoted to Server Admins...in which, a Valve employee could send an email to that usergroup so that everyone gets a "no-reply" email informing us of the update. I just thought of that. Might be a good idea. Either way....I love Valve games and love running servers, so I'll go where you guys go. Regards, Aaron Rapp -----Original Message----- From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Burton Johnsey Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 5:42 PM To: 'hlds@list.valvesoftware.com' Subject: Re: [hlds] Important notice regarding the HLDS mailing lists Given the feedback received from the list, we are holding off migrating the mailing lists to the forums. The intent of migrating to the forums was to leverage the benefits and features of the forums to further strengthen the community, giving us a central spot to gather feedback. The forum software is continually being updated by vBulletin and is flexible enough to also allow us to add our own features. To address a couple of specific concerns about the forums: - Membership - We can keep the membership in the DS forums private so that random forum users cannot post. - Moderation - We can assign moderators for specific forums. Moderators would be volunteers from the current mailing list participants. - Forum server performance - We have upgraded the system that runs the forums and we do not experience the lag we were experiencing in the past - The forums are accessible to more people than the mailing list. We want to make things better, not worse. We appreciate any further feedback you have to offer. -----Original Message----- From: Burton Johnsey Date: Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:38 PM Subject: Important notice regarding the HLDS mailing lists To: hlds_a...@list.valvesoftware.com<mailto:hlds_a...@list.valvesoftware.com>, Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com<mailto:hlds@list.valvesoftware.com>>, hlds_li...@valvesoftware.com<mailto:hlds_li...@valvesoftware.com> We will be shutting down the HLDS mailing lists on Friday, February 20th. After February 20th, all server discussions should take place in one of the forums listed below. Windows server discussion should be conducted here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=44 (Source) http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=16 (Gldsrc) Linux server discussion should be conducted here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=45 (Source) http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=19 (Gldsrc) If you have not already done so, please register a forum account<http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/register.php>. NOTE: The mailing list archives will still be available for viewing. -BurtonJ Valve Software _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
