[hibernate-dev] Retiring hibernate-users@lists.jboss.org

Hey, The mailing list hibernate-users(a)lists.jboss.org was originally intended for discussion among Hibernate users. This is why it was not strictly moderated, allowing anyone to post there. I've rarely looked there, but upon checking recently, I realized it's chock-full of spam. See https://lists.jboss.org/archives/list/hibernate-users@lists.jboss.org/202... for example. This obviously makes the list pointless for users and creates legal problems. Someone apparently changed this list's settings some time ago, enforcing moderation on all messages. But that only resulted in spam going to moderators. So I changed that list's settings again to reject all future messages, making the list effectively read-only. I don't think this will impact anyone considering the list was already unusable and we have alternative ways for users to connect (forums, Zulip). Those alternatives are documented at https://hibernate.org/community/ , which incidentally didn't even mention hibernate-users(a)lists.jboss.org. Please let me know if you see a better solution. Yoann Rodière Hibernate team