Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE: Migration from Mailing Lists to Discussion Forums

From: Russ Goodwin (rglists@x23.com)
Date: Tue Jan 18 2005 - 11:46:50 EST


At 09:01 AM 1/18/2005, Ross Rader wrote:
>Please try and keep this discussion in the real world world.

OK then...

Directi - a direct competitor to OpenSRS, I'm not plugging them, just
citing an example - had reseller mailing lists which were moved to their
forums at webhosting.info. I still get an email containing the text of the
post and a link to the forum every time a message is posted there. I
couldn't tell you the last time I went to that forum (a LOOONG time ago),
but I review the emails.

Sending emails also alleviates the censorship issue - I have a copy of the
original message stored locally, so there's no point in trying to edit
things (and there are a number of posts there in which people blast directi).

Most of us have reseller accounts with a number of registrars and it's not
that difficult to leave. Why piss off your resellers with a change like
this when it's so unnecessary? Especially at a time when your share of the
domain market is falling.

-Russ



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