RE: [cobalt-users] Is the List back up?

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The cobalt list went down late Friday morning; the last post 
> was Dan Kriwitsky's reply to "Sources of Packages".

Yeah, blame me. My post broke the list. ;-)

> 
> Late this morning, it appears to be running, but crippled <frown>.
> 
> Eight posts have made their way to the list since it started 
> running again.  Four were posts I made on Friday, all between 
> 4:49 and 6:00 pm. 
> four were from various posters, between 11:23 this morning 
> and 12:28 pm this afternoon.  All times are PDT.

It seems to be catching up, slowly. A reply I made showed up a short
time later.

> 
> This question is aimed towards the people at Cobalt who read 
> this list: 
> Is Cobalt going to continue to maintain this list?

I think Erika, who no longer works for Sun, answered that previously.
Cobalt would prefer everyone use the forum and would like the list to go
away. So they don't support it. I've also noticed fewer posts by
Sun/Cobalt employees compared to the past.
(Although the way they can get beat up on the list may be another
reason.)

> 
> If not, then I'll be able to continue to host the lists, at 
> the email-lists.com, which is where I currently host the 
> unofficial "qube-users" list.

I would suggest anyone interested in a "just-in-case" if Cobalt decides
to dump the list, to email Jeff privately to subscribe them to his list
if and when this list dies. I'm sure Jeff could scrape the names from
his archives, but that wouldn't be the Right Thing[TM] to do. Once the
list disappears, it would be too late.

-- 
Dan Kriwitsky