[Board] Proposal to remove contact form

[Michael Smith]

If it sends an email to info@ then it can easily send an email to discuss@

Mike

On 2/13/15, 1:56 PM, "Jeff McKenna" <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:

>The mailing list it needs to go to is Discuss, and then the community
>can help that person.  I am not sure how we can make that happen
>technically though.
>
>-jeff
>
>
>
>On 2015-02-13 2:50 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
>> I absolutely +1 with you not having the to respond to these emails. I'm
>> unsure if removing the contact form is what we want. Perhaps we create a
>> mailing list that the contact form submits to? Then it can be responded
>>to
>> by anyone?
>>
>> But its not something that is the president's (or any one person's) job.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> Michael Smith
>>
>> OSGeo Foundation Treasurer
>> treasurer at osgeo.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/13/15, 1:44 PM, "Jeff McKenna" <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Board,
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if everyone realizes this, but we/OSGeo get daily emails
>>> through the contact form at http://www.osgeo.org/contact (which are
>>>sent
>>> to info@)
>>>
>>> 99% of these are technical questions or those not willing to join a
>>> mailing list to get the answer they need, which means someone
>>>(99.99999%
>>> of the time me) must respond and point to a mailing list.
>>>
>>> I would like to remove this contact form, and replace it will links to
>>> appropriate mailing lists/contacts.
>>>
>>> Would anyone object to this, or, does anyone have better ideas in how
>>>to
>>> handle this? (by the way, we've tried before to add more people to
>>>info@
>>> emails, but in the end it is always me who replies, so this option is a
>>> no-go/fail)
>>>
>>> Thanks all,
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
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