Re: [cobalt-users] Shall we move the Cobalt List?

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 07 May 2004 07:37 am, Malcolm Hills wrote:

> I am having immense problems keeping up with this discussion/thread. 
>  Would somebody at the top of the discussions (ie someone actively
> involved be so kind as to summarize the discussion so far and list
> the options / decisions made (or needing to be made)

Somewhere around a year ago Bruce Timberlake and I had some discussions 
over what would happen when/if Sun decided to pull the plug on the 
lists.

So when Craig announced they were, I contacted Bruce and suggested what 
we'd mentioned back then... that as a prior list-owner he would be the 
ideal person to be the list-owner of the lists once they were moved, 
and that I'd help move them.

My thoughts originally were to host them myself at email-lists.com, a 
commercial list-hosting venue I've run for almost six years.  (No, 
there's no home-page.)

But then Ryan Verner offered to host them on his almost unusued 
qbalt.com server, set up the lists, set up Bruce and I as list 
administrators, and gave me user access to the server.

So I didn't need to upgrade from Majordomo (which I've used for over ten 
years) to Mailman afterall; Ryan already had it running.

I've had lots of experience in moving lists and announced here I was 
going to move the cobalt lists to an off-Sun server.

And as we say here in earthquake country, "That's when the shift hit the 
sand."

> If we continue in the roundabout manner we are going in at the moment
> then I am afraid we will never achieve anything, nor move forward

I'm actually still moving forward (though I'm going to be on hold 
through the weekend so other things in my life get done), though it 
would appear that a vocal minority wants this list to die completely 
rather than be moved.

Jeff
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