[Linux-users] ADMIN: moving the mailing lists

[Douglas J Hunley]

All:
Some of you might recall that when the lists were first formed, they ran on my 
personal server (along with everything else) and that eventually, we split up 
the services and moved them around to different servers (thanks to the 
graciousness of various people here).

I recently purchased a hosted Xen server, and as such am planning on moving 
services to this new machine. This is not a comment on any of the services 
offered by the generous people hosting our stuff now. It's simply a decision 
to put things on a commercially hosted server, instead of various people's 
personal machines/connections.

I had planned on moving services slowly over the coming weeks/months, but the 
recent unfortunate hardware issues experienced by David have caused me to 
reconsider my timeline. As such, I'll be moving the mailing lists to the new 
server over the weekend. All of this should be fairly transparent to the list 
users, but I wanted to give a head's up. 

Also, it would appear that we do not, currently, have a full roster of list 
members. David is working diligently to recover this info, but I'd ask that 
you reach out to your friends and insure that they resub in the coming days. 

I expect the lists and DNS to be correctly pointing to the new host by the 
time work resumes after the US holiday (at the latest).

I'd like to take a minute to thank David B for hosting our email all this 
time. He's provided us a lot and asked nothing in return. Thanks David!

I'd also like to thank the list members for sticking with us. This community 
wouldn't exist w/o you, and the list content is some of the best of all the 
lists I'm on. Please bare with us as we strive to improve our service 
offerings.

Thanks, and have a great weekend/holiday!
-- 
Douglas J Hunley 
http://doug.hunley.homeip.net