New mailing list server
You may have noticed that this list has been very quiet for the past week. Something happened to the server and all mail to the list was bouncing. The problem appears to be resolved for now.
Resolving this problem has convinced me that we need to move the list to a new server with better support (the initial response I got was we'll look at it within 5 business days' followed by case closed, we don't host your list' followed by `I guess we do, problem escalated' followed by silence).
David Miller has offered to host our list at `kernel.org'. Unless someone has a strong objection I think we should take him up on the offer and move the list.
One downside to this move is that everyone will have to individually subscribe to the new list. (I would try to at least send out the initial subscription message for everyone but I can't do that. The only access to the current list membership is through a web interface that requires a click on each name. I've tried to get an ASCII membership list in the past and it's effectively impossible to get that from our current host, yet another reason to switch.) To subscribe to the new list just send an email to
where the body of the message consists of the single line
subscribe linux-ia64
For those web centric people you can go to the URL
http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-ia64
there's a `subscribe' there that will do the job also. All future mail to the list should be addressed to
David Mosberger has also arranged to get the `vger' list archived:
Quoted 6 lines · David Mosberger
Thanks to Hank Leininger, the vger list will be archived at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ia64&r=1&w=2
Hank will also look into adding the old linux-ia64 mails to the archive, so there is some contiuity.
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Don Dugger "Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse." - D. Gale [email protected] Ph: 303/447-2201 _______________________________________________ Linux-IA64 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64
OK, as it turns out I've obtained a list of all subscribers to the old list (thanks Dan).
I'm going to send a request to subscribe everyone to the new mailing list. You should all get a confirmation message, just follow the instructions in the confirmation and we should all be good to go. I've attempted to remove everyone who has already subscribed to the new list but some of you (I'm not naming names) are using different email addresses. If you get a subscription confirmation from `vger' and you're already on the new list just ignore the new subscription request. If you don't get a confirmation by tomorrow I missed you somehow and you'll have to subscribe yourself.
Quoted 10 lines · On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:29:22PM -0600, [email protected] wrote:
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One downside to this move is that everyone will have to individually subscribe to the new list. (I would try to at least send out the initial subscription message for everyone but I can't do that. The only access to the current list membership is through a web interface that requires a click on each name. I've tried to get an ASCII membership list in the past and it's effectively impossible to get that from our current host, yet another reason to switch.)
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Don Dugger "Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse." - D. Gale [email protected] Ph: 303/447-2201 _______________________________________________ Linux-IA64 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64