[Board] Proposal to remove contact form

[Jeff McKenna]

But my concern is getting the user/submitter subscribed to Discuss, for 
the whole discussion.  Maybe we could state that this happens when you 
use the form (auto-subscribe to Discuss list)?

-jeff



On 2015-02-13 3:02 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> 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
>>>>