<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby <<a href="mailto:mihamina@rktmb.org">mihamina@rktmb.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On 09/29/2011 03:48 AM, NoOp wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <a href="http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/09/20/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#t11:00" target="_blank">http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/09/20/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#t11:00</a> Shuttleworth states that they should just shut the Ubuntu users list down (Mark Shuttleworth is 'sabdfl'[1]: </blockquote> </div> We can be faster than one man. Let's subscribe and use Group <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntu-list" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntu-list</a> Current email address: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-list@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-list@googlegroups.com</a> Dare? I have always very much appreciated the suggestions, advise, and even a few reprimands from the knowledgeable members of this forum. Yes, there are people that just want to hijack threads to meet a personal agenda, but I've learned to ignore them. I agree with those that think that Canonical is making an error in judgement at entertaining the closing of this list, but in reading these recent threads on the topic, wondered - why don't we (the community of users who really _use_ this list for its intended purpose) simply take it somewhere else? Is Google groups a viable option? What about a hosted forum (I'm a [paid] supporting member of two other forums that are moderated and seem to run quite well). Do the members here need to have Canonical's blessing to run such a group/forum? I for one would feel somewhat lost without this list (although I'm sure the resolution to most problems could/would be found elsewhere), but the technical issues aren't the only reason for my being on this list. I learn from many of the threads, and find that many others do as well. I would hope that Canonical would see that. If they don't, I'm ok with the list just relocating off Canonical's universe to another location, but it would be sad to see it happen. If the support for the distro falls apart, I suspect that it won't be long before I and (I would guess) many others would be looking into an alternate distribution of Linux to run their systems from. I've enjoyed running Ubuntu since version 4, but without support for any product, current users (not experts mind you) will migrate elsewhere, and new users will simply stop coming, relegating Ubuntu to the equivalent of the elephant graveyard. </blockquote></div>