On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Andrew Rist <andrew.r...@oracle.com> wrote: > > > On 3/13/2012 10:02 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Andrew Rist<andrew.r...@oracle.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 3/12/2012 5:27 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Andrew Rist<andrew.r...@oracle.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I would like to set the date for shutting down these Oracle hosted >>>>> resources >>>>> as March 15. (no Shakespeare references, please) >>>>> >>>>> This will include mailing lists, mail forwarder, remaining web pages, >>>>> identity server. >>>>> >>>>> What are people's thoughts on this? (sooner is possible, I believe) >>>>> >>>> Hi Andrew, >>>> >>>> Would it be possible to get one more blast out to the legacy >>>> announcement list before we shut it down? >>> >>> Sure - I can do that. >>> >>>> If so, I can craft a short >>>> note, directing them to the new lists, etc. >>> >>> That would be great. >>> >> How about something like this: >> >> ===================== >> >> Subject: Final Reminder on OpenOffice.org mailing list and email >> forwarder shutdown >> >> Please note that the legacy mailing lists for the OpenOfficeOffice.org >> project will be retired effective March 16h. New mailing lists have >> been created, at Apache, for users as well as project participants. >> >> If you wish to continue to receive occasional email updates from the >> project, for new releases,etc., then please subscribe to our >> announcement email list by sending an email to >> ooo-announce-subscr...@incubator.apache.org. Information on other >> mailing lists for the project can be found here: >> http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html >> >> Also on March 16th we will shutdown the legacy email forwarder for the >> openoffice.org domain. If you have and use an openoffice.org email >> address alias, then please note the important information described on >> the following page: >> >> https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/retirement_of_openoffice_org_email >> >> We thank you for your past interest and support of the OpenOffice.org >> project and look forward to your continued support at Apache. >> >> Rob Weir, on behalf of the Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee >> >> ===================== >> >> If this still makes sense in the morning, we can go with that or >> something similar. >> >> Do you need to send it, or would I send it and then you moderate me in? >> >> -Rob > > If you send, I'll moderate through... > A.
Thanks. It looks like that went out over night. Checking the numbers we got another 2000+ subscribers to the ooo-announce list, which is pretty good since this is the 2nd reminder, and the note was mainly about the email forwarder shutdown and just mentioned the ooo-announce list. -Rob >> >> >>> A. >>>> >>>> >>>> -Rob >>>> >>>>> Andrew >>> >>> >
