[vlc] [RFC] closing the vlc user mailing list.

[Diane Trefethen]

1) To me, the biggest advantage of a mail list over a forum is that with a mail 
list, you don't have to go to a website and log on to express your opinion.

2) One doesn't have to log on to a mail list to find out what is happening 
vis-a-vis all the issues on that list. The issues are delivered straight to your 
email box. A perfect example is this thread. It would have been weeks before I 
knew about this tempest in a teapot if it were on a forum, since I never go to 
the forums :)

3) If VLC's mail lists are on a different server from that of their forums, that 
also means that if a DOS attack shuts down their primary servers, the mail lists 
may well not be affected.

4) The main mail list page is pretty clear about the limitations of the lists 
like they are PUBLIC and your posts are available to the hoi polloi, FOREVER.

5) If you don't like this mail list, no one is forcing you to use it. But why 
would you try to stop OTHERS from using it because YOU don't like it?

This isn't rocket science, folks.