Re: update on new server for mailing list

[Shai Ayal]

The thing I miss most is the search option -- will it be available on
the new server as well?

On 4/17/06, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 31-Mar-2006, I wrote:
>
> | I'm moving the address@hidden mailing list from the current
> | server that I've been maintaining to one that is managed by the UW
> | Collge of Engineering.
>
> Unfortunately, there were a few problems that prevented switching to
> the new server until now.  This message should be the first to be
> delivered using the new method, so if you use filtering, note the
> changes in the X-Mailing-List/List-Id headers below.
>
> As a reminder, here is the rest of the information I posted earlier:
>
>  The new system uses Mailman and so provides a web interface for
>  subscriptions and message archive here:
>
>    https://www.cae.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/octave-maintainers
>
>  By using Mailmain, we can provide options for message digests,
>  delivery suspension, etc. (all the nice things that Mailmain can
>  do).  We are still requiring that postings to the list come from
>  subscribers.  It may be a few days before the message archive can be
>  updated with old postings.
>
>  I will be moving the list of subscribers over to the new server, so
>  you do not need to resubscribe.  When I move the list, I think you
>  should receive a message notifying you of the change.
>
>  The current address for posting (address@hidden) will continue
>  to work.  However, due to limitations with running Mailman on a shared
>  server that supports many other lists, we could not use "maintainers"
>  as the list name, so outgoing messages will use the address
>  address@hidden  I hope that Mailman will eventually be
>  fixed to allow us to use the address@hidden name.  But it is
>  more important to me to move the list to the new server, so I am
>  willing to accept the address@hidden name for now.
>
>  Unfortunately, instead of adding
>
>    X-Mailing-List: <address@hidden>
>
>  to the header as we have been doing, Mailman will add
>
>    List-Id: <octave-maintainers.octave.org>
>
>  so if you are filtering messages, you will need to update your rules
>  to accomodate this change.
>
>  I'll update the info on the www.octave.org/archive.html page soon to
>  point to the new Mailman pages.
>
>
> jwe
>