Check Point's FW-1 Mailing replaced by Web Forums

[melipla]

They see how much of a good thing we have here and they're jealous! :)
Unfortunately it was down when I initially attempted to access the forums, ten minutes later it was up and is open to the public:

http://forums.checkpoint.com/

As you can see, CPUG's forums are much nicer.

Hello FW-1 list users.

I am glad to announce Check Point’s new Support web site
(www.checkpoint.com/support).
The new Support site includes an improved user interface and new features.
One of the new features is our Discussion Forums. Like the FW-1 list, the
forums are an environment where customers are open to discuss issues with
other customers.
However, in contrast to the mailing list the forums offer improved user
interface and easy access to information.
I would like to invite you to use the Discussion Forums and will be glad to
meet you there.
For this reason and after several years of operation, the FW-1 mailing list
will be closed in the next days and its content will be placed in the
"Miscellaneous" forum.

I will appreciate any comments and feedback that you may have about the
Support web site, and the forums.

See you there!

Gil Sudai.
Knowledge Center Manager.
Check Point Software Technologies LTD.
Phone: +972-3-7534734
Fax: +972-3-7534748
This message may contain confidential and/or proprietary information, and is
intended only for the person/entity to whom it was originally addressed. The
content of this message may contain private views and opinions which do not
constitute a formal disclosure or commitment unless specifically stated.

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[Joncon]

Let's hope it has more uptime than the secureknowledge site ;-)

[RayPesek]

Their public site went through a redesign as well. I do like the soft blue colors better.

I haven't found the "Create a new account" link mentioned in the forum Help yet, though.

On a similar line, R65 was announced today and you can order an Upgrade Kit from the User Center for no charge shipping via postal mail. Shipping is supposed to start on March 15, 2007.

Ray

[RayPesek]

So it turns out you have to login with your User Center credentials. I'm not sure I like that, although do have a personal one and a company one. I made sure the Control Panel said my email address would be hidden and then posted a test message. Sure enough, it's displaying my email address.

And there's no Delete function. So I went in and editted the message by deletingthe subject and all text and saved it and it blew up with a Java null pointer exception.

Ray

[MarioL]

Yeah, saw that, not ideal is it?

Not only will ppl give away their email (spam) but might also give away quite sensitive company info...

[RayPesek]

Yeah, somebody didn't say "Hey, if we show their User Center account name as the forum poster, won't that let people know people's User Center account name?" thereby eliminating half of the work of guessing credentials.

If they would change it to let you pick your display name, I would be OK with that.

Ray

[kva.kva]

I cannot login in CP forum, even with my UserCenter credentials. :)

[RayPesek]

They changed something because my poster name is not my email address any more, but I have my email address set as "hidden" but when I click on my name, it displays my email address (or maybe my user center ID)?

The feedback on their mailing list has been decidedly negative about this move. One suggestion to improve it was to implement an RSS feed because people do not want to waste their time searching web forums for new posts. Another was to keep the mailing list alive and let it do a one-way feed to the Misc. section like it's doing right now.

Ray

[BarryStiefel]

Originally Posted by RayPesek

They changed something because my poster name is not my email address any more, but I have my email address set as "hidden" but when I click on my name, it displays my email address (or maybe my user center ID)?

The feedback on their mailing list has been decidedly negative about this move. One suggestion to improve it was to implement an RSS feed because people do not want to waste their time searching web forums for new posts. Another was to keep the mailing list alive and let it do a one-way feed to the Misc. section like it's doing right now.

Ray

I'll start working on the RSS feed here. I may not get to it before next week.

Barry

[RayPesek]

Let the competition begin! :-)

Ray