Below is a message describing the transition of this mailing list from
Mailbase to JISCmail (acknowledgements to Richard Kay, owner of the
econ-lets list for giving permission for use of his announcement).
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There has been a change in the contractual arrangement for management of the
UK academic community mailing list service. The service previously provided
by Mailbase (http://www.mailbase.ac.uk) at Newcastle will in future be
provided by Rutherford Appleton Laboratories based at Didcot Oxfordshire.
This transition affects this list as well as the many other lists provided
as part of this service. The decision to effect this change was made some
time ago by the service funding agency, JISC ( http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ ).
The transition will take effect shortly, as from 27th November. Some
interruption in normal list service is expected during the weekend of
25/26th November.
Following this transition the Mailbase name will no longer be used as the
primary means for accessing the relocated lists, though web requests and
emails sent to the old Mailbase addresses will be forwarded for some time
after the transition.
If any of your leaflets or publicity mentions the Mailbase address for this
list please remember to update the address, URL and subscription and
unsubscription mail command details etc. when these materials can next be
revised. It is recognised that many web pages refer to URLs of articles
archived on Mailbase and access to these articles will continue to be
maintained.
However to make access to these articles more direct and to ensure that they
refer to the live and changing (as opposed to the static and archived) site,
if you are aware of any web pages which refer to the list pages please
update these as soon as possible.
Below is copied part of the announcement by JISCmail.
I hope and expect that list members will bear with us through this
transition and will want to join me in wishing JISCmail, the new service
providers, every success in carrying out this job, and in thanking Mailbase
staff past and present for all the great work they have done in providing a
superb technical support service.
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> The service will be based upon the well known LISTSERV
> software. This will result in some changes to the user interface.
> Details of the differences and the transition arrangements are
> available on the JISCmail web site at:
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> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/docs/transition.htm
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> New addresses:
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> Emails to list should be sent to [log in to unmask] .
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> User commands e.g. for subscription and unsubscription should be sent
> to [log in to unmask] .
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> The JISCmail helpline can the reached at [log in to unmask]
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