mail dropout :-(

Doug Way dway at riskmetrics.com
Fri Jun 1 03:55:22 UTC 2001


"Noel J. Bergman" wrote:
> 
> > I think it's probably high time to move the list off the UIUC server.
> 
> Since the list is already mirrored on eGroups
> (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/squeak), all that would have to happen would
> be for people to subscribe to the group, unsubscribe from the list, and
> start posting to squeak at egroups.com, instead of squeak at cs.uiuc.edu.  Since
> the lists are mirrors, nothing is lost as people migrate.
> 
> The migration should be painless, since the mirroring is already in place.
> The last person on the UIUC server would still see all of the messages,
> barring server failures at UIUC.

Not a bad idea, although running a list directly on eGroups/Yahoo means that there are ads attached to email posts, which can be annoying.  I think a privately run list would be preferable, since we have a few offers.

- Doug Way
  dway at riskmetrics.com





More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list