From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.191] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QiFyk-0004eS-Kq for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 01:17:06 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from mail-yx0-f175.google.com ([209.85.213.175]) by sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1QiFyj-00016S-Ek for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 01:17:06 +0000 Received: by yxi19 with SMTP id 19so1181712yxi.34 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:17:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.175.232 with SMTP id z68mr4834891yhl.46.1310865419917; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:16:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dair.home.jrbobdobbs.org (cpe-70-124-63-160.austin.res.rr.com [70.124.63.160]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p50sm701654yhj.28.2011.07.16.18.16.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:16:59 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Doug Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-1--301749807" From: Douglas Huff In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:16:55 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <83816D44-004A-43C4-AFFE-ED1BABD90144@jrbobdobbs.org> References: <1310813679.2195.0.camel@Desktop666> To: Jeff Garzik X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.3.3 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. X-Headers-End: 1QiFyj-00016S-Ek Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] The forums... X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 01:17:06 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-1--301749807 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Jul 16, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 7:20 AM, John Smith = wrote: >> I know most of the people actively working on bitcoin (and active on = this >> list) ignore the forums, for good reason. But there's a lot of people >> (everyone new?) that think the most active members of the forum have = a major >> influence on the project's direction. Which is making us as = developers look >> really bad. As if we're some political faction that wants to bring = down >> world governments and unleash a global anarchistic doomsday scenario. >>=20 >> It really needs to be more down-to-earth. Ideally, the forum would = simply be >> a way to communicate with the *actual* users. For example, I use it = for >> soliciting user feedback on UI features. >=20 > I agree completely. >=20 > While the owner of the forums and bitcoin.org is Missing In Action and > has not responded to emails in more than a week, we do have access to > change the main www.bitcoin.org home page, to link to another forum. >=20 > Or we could simply de-link the current forum, as a first step. I say just kill the forum.bitcoin.org DNS entry along with it. --=20 Douglas Huff --Apple-Mail-1--301749807 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJOIjgHAAoJEEPHkQabDWHPDKAQAJVGtxRWvw+QYtejH3zTvkCP 30U/XtDSIqrStqku0ldcY/f/loUyHm018MXdH7Li2ZvKKSq5O5BwErIVcW2tzihN Xl9Jue0tHyLiVOArPC4zoG5M4bZTFETDd9Ln2e8/IXeY1Q5GtWGzbObli2GZwgN0 AvjKu2xyvYlnpYmx1ygbp8wV4gnOv4FoW4u8qQuRlAs9zmFoSdpdF7Esisp/6sQy gde/qnv+rJxIG4gG54XVXZ9+NMt0Uog3Cz5MJSPPg5KILwpb4jdjseGXkckydEps kfVVDgobtTRml3X6AvIDhnywLvtIJoTfyA0a+L73u4fd5pBGJatESARXK3NCtapQ /XL2hdco2A/TQ+d6Yu+62+5qR5zTn4RlGQf6sxmvGrBCS9i6FP/RJmvJVaDbHzBT WHdD6QPoWCw3Fu5p81NHw+zYkqj4xIED/C5h2Zm77Ib57ckc1J9mN/qGH+V8Efw1 6IimH2pJGNaFn/C89ONvopRf5TxVBMHqHvsLANjbOlBZNxIstkUvzmxA0ybrlxh7 BdQ1oApBWio7FuWiXGrdJCqM5jLWoxqvre4w2k6HKBaME8bd1KNyTrd2rgZLQAjh jRS71dHRG4PtZltr14eU1jZIh5RVvQOqobozjAAJbiMXoDhXHqf+dlgqAyvSGmwd ygrF+bA+tYBW4DLfFvCB =rhGI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-1--301749807--