Administrivia: Move to EZMLM

From: aleph1at_private
Date: Sun May 13 2001 - 22:51:27 PDT

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    Good day,
    
      [ I apologize to those that will receive this message multiple times ]
    
      As undoubtedly you will have noticed by now we experienced some problem
    with our mailing lists this past week. In short, LISTSERV finally croaked.
    It simply could not handle the load. We hoped to perform the these changes
    in a couple of months as part of our upgrade strategy but we were forced
    to accelerate our scheduled plans.
    
      We have moved the mailing lists over to ezmlm-idx. This will require a
    little getting used to but it should not be particularly challenging. 
    ezmlm-idx offers most of the features LISTSERV does and a few of its own.
    Performance wise it should give LISTSERV a good beating.
    
      To familiarize yourself with ezmlm-idx review the ezman manual at
    http://www.ezmlm.org/ezman-0.32/index.html.
    
      If you were using the digest option under LISTSERV you will need
    to unsubscribe from the list and resubscribe to the digest. This
    can be easily accomplished by sending messages to the 
    <list>-unsubscribeat_private and 
    <list>-digest-subscribeat_private addresses.
    
      Messages that had been received by LISTSERV but not yet processed,
    including messages that had become stuck on its queue and appeared
    to disappear last week, have been re-injected into the mail system.
    List moderators may, or may not, approve them, as appropriate.
    
      Aside from the speed benefits of ezmlm, messages now include a
    Precedence header which should cut down on the number of out-of-office
    and similar messages people that post to the list get. This is a feature
    L-Soft refused to provide. If you ever post to the list this should
    make you very happy.
    
      People that send messages with strange Sender headers should have
    no more problems either. Another quirk of LISTSERV L-Soft did not
    believe to be a problem.
    
      If you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact me.
    Cheers.
    
    -- 
    Elias Levy
    SecurityFocus.com
    http://www.securityfocus.com/
    Si vis pacem, para bellum
    



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