Re: [SBB] Admin: notice of mailing list downtime November 29

[Les Chibana <[[email protected]]>]

Great news, Chuq! And thank you so much for managing and hosting this  
list! Speaking from experience, I know it's a mostly thankless task.  
Some folks seem to think that it's all automatic and perfect, that  
there's no one sweating the details behind the scenes. And not many  
of the bird lists seem to be hosted by individuals who also provide  
the server space. There are a lot of benefits to this that may not be  
fully understood by everyone.

It's a very warm feeling to be able to access the archives! (Can you  
tell that I'm a bit geeky about birding lists?) One suggestion: could  
the "pre-plaidworks" archives be arranged chronologically by year and  
month? Or, if it's not too much trouble, in both ways? That way,  
people who don't think like me and prefer the alphabetical month  
approach can have their cake, too. Will there be a search function  
that can look through all archives without having to go to each  
month's page first?

On behalf of those who feel as grateful as I do, but don't think to  
thank you, Muchisimas gracias!

Les
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On Nov 28, 2005, at 10:22 PM, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

> The south bay birds mailing list will be offline starting about 7PM  
> on Tuesday, November 29.
>
> I am going to be upgrading the software and moving the list to my  
> new host (finally). I hope the downtime will be less than 2 hours.
>
> All list members will receive a new "welcome to the list" message  
> as I migrate the subscriber list. This is normal, do not panic. The  
> new list will live on a new domain name, plaidworks.org (instead of  
> plaidworks.com). The old plaidworks.com addresses will continue to  
> work, and this should affect you only if you filter messages on the  
> list address or domain (if you don't know what that means, don't  
> worry).The switch should be invisible to most of you.
>
> The new server has some new features -- the archives are finally  
> not broken, and the links to them work. I've also installed a  
> system to manage a Frequently Asked Questions document, and I've  
> put in some of the common information for the list. You're welcome  
> to submit other FAQ entries via email to me, or via the new FAQ  
> system.
>
> You can check out the archives here:
>
> http://www.plaidworks.org/archives/south-bay-birds
>
> and the new FAQ system here:
>
> http://www.plaidworks.org/faq/index.php?action=show&cat=3
>
> I will send out a note before I shut down the list tomorrow  
> evening, so you know to hold off on posting. I'll also send out a  
> note once the upgrade is complete. I'm going to be migrating  
> mailing lists over the next couple of days; once that is done and I  
> shut off my old server, turnaround time for postings to the list  
> should speed up.
>
> Chuq
> (it's all my fault)
> --
> Chuq Von Rospach, Architech
> [[email protected]] -- http://chuqui.typepad.com/
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