Hello everyone
We thought we had better provide an 'end of first week report' on the change
over from Listbot to mailbase.
Broadly, we think the change has gone well. Almost all the previous Listbot
listmembers have moved over and a handful of new members have joined - a
special welcome to you. There are around 358 members on the list from around
the world at the present time.
However, there have been a number of teething problems here and there - such
as some people being registered wrongly, twice, or not at all. We envisage
that these problems will be smoothed out over the next week or so. It would
probably be a good idea to check your individual registrations on the list.
This can be done by all listmembers from the website.
A second problem that has arisen for us is that we both have a lot of email
contact with people on the list _offlist_ and, because the mailbase system
only allows mail to arrive from the moderators, our work contacts cannot
tell which emails are arriving from the list and which are private/specific
to them. Consequently, we have decided to preface each message to the list
in future with [CSL] in the subject line. Hopefully, this will get around
the problem differentiating emails arriving from us on the list and
individually to colleagues.
To be honest, neither of us really keen on the idea that all messages arrive
with our names on them. But we can't seem to find a way of keeping the old
'Cyber Society Live' 'brand name' as the source of list messages. If there
is a way around this that anyone is aware of and that doesn't involve
shifting the entire list again, please let us know. As you are all aware,
neither of us are 'techies' as it were.
If there any other problems with the list that we have not mentioned and
that people want to raise then please email us - or the list.
One last point. The list will be closing for the UK Easter academic break
next Friday (14/4/00) for 3 weeks. The first messages of the post-Easter
period will start to arrive on Monday May 8.
Happy Easter.
Best wishes
John & Joanne
(list moderators)
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