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Originally Posted by RobertGraham  IRC would be real-time as opposed to a more delayed post and wait. Both mediums have their advantages and disadvantages. One is interactive, the other provides long term documentation for multiple parties to benefit from.
Yahoo Groups is like Usenet, this is like Usenet. I don't see any advantage there. Many have seen the msg from Phoneboy that he is looking at discontinuing the gurus list. The official Check Point FW-1 list still has much traffic, but I prefer this venue. |
I'm a subscriber to PhoneBoy's list, but the last message I received was on 2006-08-27 at 10:14. Has anyone received one since then? I had concluded he'd shut it down.
I'm also a subscriber to Check Point's Firewall-1 mailing list and because I'm curious I've prepared a graph showing the message posting traffic levels for all three of these Check Point communities. I've attached it here.
I think the mailing list idea worked best years ago when people typically connected to the Internet only a few times per day and it made sense to carry around a copy of the entire archive in your computer in the form of e-mail messages. Now that fast Internet access is available almost everywhere, I think it's more useful to have the archive in a specialized web-based application like this discussion board software. I think vBulletin discussion board software (what we use here) is the sweetest way to do this.
The graph shows the story of the number of posts per month on each of these three Check Point communities. At this point, cpug.org has about an 80% market share of new monthly postings. I would suspect that Check Point would eventually kill off their mailing list due to declining message volume, although there may be political pressures to keep it going. I'm confident that we take really good care of their customers here and I invite them to join us and work together with us in some way. I think cpug.org is the most useful web resource available for Check Point users and I think everybody would be better off if Check Point would simply point their customers here.
Does anybody have an archive of messages from either the Check Point or PhoneBoy mailing lists from before February, 2003? I'm working on making an online archive of both mailing lists available to everyone here on cpug.org. I'm trying to integrate all of them into this discussion board.