[Info-vax] Posts

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/21/2024 1:52 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-05-21, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.eu> wrote:
>> Why do we go for days without anything being posted in this newsgroup?
> 
> Because, in the words of Q, "it has all been said".
> 
> There's absolutely nothing new to talk about. This newsgroup has a lot
> of off topic (or loosely related to VMS) discussions, but without those
> discussions this newsgroup would be mostly dead. VMS these days is a static
> known system, with no new functionality coming along. All the answers
> that people need can probably be searched for.
> 
> In a couple of months it will be 10 years since the port of VMS to x86-64
> VMS started, and at various points during that decade, many people have
> clearly been unable to wait any longer and have found alternatives outside
> of VMS. The discussions here are only a fraction of what they were even
> a few years ago.

There are lot of things to talk about.

Lots of potential questions regarding VMS system management
or VMS programming.

(the non-system-manager and non-programmer VMS user is probably a
thing of the past)

The fact that the answer may be in some documentation and
possibly even be googleable does not mean no questions.
Questions are asked by humans not perfect search bots.

There has been a few new things in VMS x86-64 and VMS 9.x.

And as soon as VMS x86-64 has everything that VMS Itanium
had, then I would expect many more new features to be added.

No technical reasons for low activity.

But most readers (and potential posters) probably come
because they are interested in VMS.

And they don't think it is fun reading posts from people
with little interest in VMS talking about non-VMS things.

Arne