Not so. As posted by Burton Johnsey;
"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. Olly wrote: > It's irrelevant as this list will be gone by Friday. > > 2009/2/15 Kitteny Berk <b...@hairy-arse.com> > > >> Now, consider your message by the same standards. >> >> It's not going to add value, or worthwhile content. You're just gonna >> make people question who the fuck you are to be telling us how to post >> on this list. >> >> As such, going by your guidelines, I request you not post on this >> subject again, as it adds no value, just unnecessary guidelines that >> no-one will follow, and a means to fuel needless conflict over nothing. >> >> molaugh...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> Take time to understand the nature of your reply. Is this message going >>> >> to >> >>> add value to the rest of the group? >>> >>> For example "wow", "Valve sucks", "I'm going to take a shower" need not >>> >> be >> >>> sent to the ENTIRE list. Remember, there are at least hundreds of folks >>> that are subscribed to this list and opening the message up to receive >>> nothing of value is a waste of carbon dioxide. >>> >>> If your reply adds to the discussion such as a real result, then feel >>> >> free >> >>> to reply back to the list. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
