Dear Elizabeth In a few days I'm going to have to suspend mailbase mail
for a while - is the procedure the same as before? Message 'suspend mail
all' - sent to whom, though? Thanks in advance, Alan
In message <00fd01c059ae$29846d20$994f08c3@oemcomputer>, Elizabeth James
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>Hello Jackie; it's good to have you on the list! Yes, it's a nuisance;
>don't know yet whether what we had come to think of as 'normal' service
>can be restored. Meantime, to add to what you quoted, here's some
>further background, from another page at the jisc site:
>
>"Why JISCmail?
>The Mailbase service which provides electronic discussion list
>management for the academic community is changing. Following a recent
>open procurement, the body which funds the provision of information
>systems for the UK higher and further education and research community
>has awarded the contract to provide the National Academic Mailing List
>Service to the Council for the Central Laboratories of the Research
>Councils (CCLRC) with effect from 27 November 2000. The name Mailbase
>will be retained by the University of Newcastle, the current Mailbase
>service provider, so the new service from CCLRC will have a new name,
>JISCmail.
>The service will be based upon the well known LISTSERV software. This
>will result in some changes to the user interface..."
>
>elizabeth
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jackie Litherland <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Nowhere does it say why they are taking over Mailbase! The language
>used
>has a Dalek like ring. (You shall Obey). Any committee who can organise
>such
>a surprise raid - I think it used to be called in the 20th century a
>fait
>accompli - on a deliberately chosen unsuspecting quiet weekend is surely
>deserving of more important missions. The FBI might be in touch
>especially
>when they have taken note of the JISC logo: The world pinned on a hub
>cap.
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Alan Halsey
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