On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:16, harryc wrote:
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?
Relax yourself, it was a problem, and until now, didn't have any clue what was going on. I said seemed like. I honestly don't care what the reason was, I was pointing out what every single user out there like me saw.
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?
"Other" meaning can't legally be discussed on an official forum, as in media playback and such. I dont exactly see how that would effect any reputation, since that information is already on the forum.
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.
Neither do I, anyone want to take a stab at doing something with it? As you mentioned, it could benefit the community. If noone really goes to it, and its mostly suseforums and suselinuxsupport, then no harm, no foul, no big deal. Not alot needs to be done from an initial configuration standpoint, and effort once up will be fairly minimal. Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin