[SLL] if you see this then the list has moved

[Mitch Frazier]

Ken Meyer wrote:
> Mitch --
>
> Congratulations!  So far, so good.
>
> You know, I have wondered how new people might be informed of the
> existence of the SLL list, which remains a viable and very useful
> source of information from very knowledgeable folks and of general
> community. However, I haven't seen any link on the LJ website that
> would lead new subscribers to the list.  If there is one, I think it
> is hardly obvious.
There isn't one but I'll suggest that we put one there.

> In fact, I have speculated that, with its ongoing transitions, the LJ
>  folks may be hoping that the list will just die of attrition so it
> will not be necessary to support it.
Actually that was the original plan, for two reasons:

- The old setup seemed to break on a routine basis for no
  apparent reason and it was so complex that you'd spend a day
  just trying to re-understand the route that mail took to get
  to and from the list.

- At the same time we planned to move all our other mailing lists
  off of mailman because they aren't really mailing lists in the
  mailman sense.  They're newsletter lists not discussion lists.

However, after looking at the list stuff for a bit I realized that all
the complexity was unnecessary and so I set it up on the new server,
sucked it all over and crossed my fingers.

> At one recent juncture, none of the old pro hands on the list seemed
> to know who the admin was, in order to discuss the possibility for
> dropped messages.

That's probably because nobody had much confidence that they'd actually
be able to figure anything out based on how complex things were.  I have
to plead mea partly culpa here.

> By the way, where are you located?
I'm in Wisconsin.

>
> Ken Meyer
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
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> [mailto:linux-list-bounces at lists2.ssc.com] On Behalf Of Mitch Frazier
>  Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 9:17 AM To: linux-list at ssc.com
>
> Subject: [SLL] if you see this then the list has moved
>
> Hopefully the list has arrived at its new home.  Again, if there are
> any problems please email me directly at mitch at ssc.com.
>
>