----- Original Message -----
From: "Clive Page" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 5:38 AM
Subject: Re: list move
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Ian Chivers wrote:
>
> > 3. had confirmation that any message sent to the list
> > should get copied to the sender.
>
> It still doesn't seem to be happenning. Or else my messages are not
> getting through.
>
> It seems ridiculous to me that a simple change of host should cause this
> much trouble to users - presumably similar things are going wrong with the
> thousands of lists which have perhaps hundreds of thousands of users?
>
> What JISC has done, of course, is taken the contract away from a group who
> have been managing mailbase competently for nearly a decade, and awarded
> it to a group who obviously can't do the same. This is the capitalist
> system gone mad, because all the groups involved are public-funded bodies.
>
> I've send e-mails of complaint to the head of my computer centre (who is
> my nearest contact to JISC), to the person who signed the message on the
> website explaining the change, to the JISCmail helpdesk, and to the head
> of IT department at RAL. It making the UK academic community, and in
> particular CCLRC, look stupid. Let's hope somebody can do something
> effective about it.
>
>
> --
> Clive Page,
> Dept of Physics & Astronomy,
> University of Leicester.
>
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