Salon: server change

Dear film-philosophers,

Just a short note to let you know that Mailbase will be changing hands over the weekend (mail sent may be delayed by a day or so).

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.

This new service will be based upon the well known LISTSERV software. This will result in a change of name, and changes to the user interface. Details of the differences and the transition arrangements will be made available from next week onwards. But don't worry too much, as emails sent to Mailbase after the transition date will be forwarded automatically for quite a while, so you will have time to adjust to the change.

*On Monday I shall let you all know the new addresses to send posts and commands.*

Ed.