For the past couple of years I have been a moderator for indiana-discuss. In my view, the usefulness of this list was eclipsed when Sun renamed the project known as "Indiana" got a formal distribution named OpenSolaris. Oracle's recent decision to discontinue the OpenSolaris distribution in favor of Oracle Solaris 11 Express (forgive me if I butchered the official name) further speaks to the notion that the indiana-discuss list has outlived its usefulness.
As I write this message, there have been no messages to indiana-discuss in August. In that same time there have been 22 spam messages that were not caught by automatic spam detection, requiring manual action by a moderator to stop getting nag mail. July was a bit more active, with one thread asking where the MIA update to the OpenSolaris distro was, one unanswered plea for help, and three threads spawned by announcements by Alan Coopersmith. The spam to the moderators outnumbered these legitimate messages in July as well. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/ Given this, I propose that [email protected] be retired. The archives should remain. Those interested in ongoing discussion of topics originally intended for indiana-discuss should be advised to subscribe to [email protected] and/or the various distros that are based on OpenSolaris. If there is objection to this proposal, I will be supportive those wishing to keep it alive and will seek someone to take over my moderation role. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
