On Wednesday 02 November 2011 21:17, Mike Scott wrote: > On 02/11/11 07:09, Michael Adams wrote: > > Who now owns the website domain name? > > > > What i am really asking is, how easy would it be to set up a > > temporary forwarder for emails to a moderator from > > us...@openoffice.org and disc...@openoffice.org. If you own the A > > record and the mail server it is easy. > > As you suggest, technically easy. But would it be desirable? > > There's already been quite a long notice period, and evidently > people haven't switched over -- providing a "temporary" forwarding > facility would only prolong the agony, as I reckon a goodly number > of people will switch when and only when they're forced to, and not > before. I'd rather see an autoreply from the old list address > asking people to resubscribe.
In my own experience many newbies are/were seeing those old lists as 'company' support (quite wrongly due to lack of understanding of OSS community structure). When i write to support at a website often an email from a different email address returns. I then start using that email address as that person knows my case unless i am asked to reply-to: the support address. > > My main concern stems from the fact that together they still > > generate as much if not more mail/queries than this list. > > Maybe there's some doubt in some people's minds as to which is the > better list to get a needed answer from, so they stick to the tried > and trusted. Besides, I could name at least one sufferer of > 'chronic novophobia' :-) Many threads are from those that ask periodic infrequent questions. "I got good help here in the past, I now have another issue". They were often unsubscribed querants, as that was how the lists were, rightly or wrongly, set up. -- Michael I laughed so hard that tears ran down my leg. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: ooo-users-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: ooo-users-h...@incubator.apache.org
