Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
No, but I mention this as an issue because there was nothing in the forum that I saw posted about it. At about 10am one day I started seeing "account suspended", which looked like someone hadn't paid the bill :)
Not a big problem or anything, but it has been down a bit, and not many know whats going on. Might have been a good idea to atleast have sent out an administrative email (which is a capability of the forum, admins sending an email to all active users).
Did you ever have a service (like your electricity) turned off without notice? Well, that's what happenned here. The hosting provider threw a switch and asked questions later. And no it was not because of 'not paying a bill'. It was because of over-utilization on the shared server. There was no time to notify anyone. Obviously if there was time we would have done so. Ok?
Considering the issues that can't be discussed at an official forum anyways, I feel its more a supplemental forum, and introduction for users thats easy to find. When they start asking... other... questions, they would end up elsewhere for that information. However, should anything unexpected happen to an unofficial forum, the owners/admins/mods would be able to make a post on the official forum stating the situation.
So, I see the idea of an official forum as a complimentary addition to the existing community.
I see where you are going with this. Considering the high integrity with which we operate the forum in question, I'd hate to be associated with 'the site to go to for other help'. IMHO, that is not a reputation we'd like to have, and frankly don't deserve. If the 'new' site is not run by Novell, then what is the problem with giving 'other' type of help? Again, I think more is better when it comes to any way that we can help the commuity, so in the case of adding another forum I have no fundamenal objection and I agree with you. I'd be interested in seeing a blueprint for this forum, and I particularly like this webring concept, although admittedly I don't technically know how it would work. Harryc --