ADMIN: Allstat; Mailbase to JISCmail changeover
>From Monday the 27th of November 2000, Allstat, (along with all other free
lists on Mailbase), will no longer run using Mailbase; it will run using
JISCmail. Members of Allstat will be automatically forwarded to JISCmail.
For Allstat members two operational features will change;
1. Allstat E-mail addresses
The Allstat e-mail addresses are changing;
To send to the list you will need to write to
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To contact the list-owner you should write to
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(you may also write directly to [log in to unmask]),
To send commands (e.g. join, leave, suspend, resume etc.) write a correctly
formated message to
[log in to unmask]
2. Allstat Commands (e.g. join, leave etc)
The commands to join, leave and suspend Allstat should be sent to a new
address and in some cases have a new syntax.
More information on this is given in the new versions of the Allstat
Introduction and FAQ that will be sent in a following e-mail.
The Allstat web pages at
http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/allstat
have already been changed.
As well as what these documents contain some new commands and options will
be available with JICSmail in future; we shall let you know of these as
they become available.
Note that to leave allstat you shall need to send the message
leave allstat
to
[log in to unmask]
To suspend your mail (note that this is different from Mailbase), send
set allstat nomail
to
[log in to unmask]
and to resume receiving Allstat, send
set allstat mail
to
[log in to unmask]
Some of you may be curious about this change. What follows is a brief
explanation of the reasons for the change.
Some time ago the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), which
previously funded Mailbase, awarded the contract for providing the National
Academic Mailing List Service to the Council for the Central Laboratories of
the Research Councils (CCLRC) in Oxfordshire, after putting the contract to
tender. Newcastle University, which created Mailbase and has run it until
now, was not successful in the tendering process.
As well as changing the provider, it was also decided to change the name of
the Service and the software that runs it. The name was changed as the
copyright on the name Mailbase is owned by the Royal Mail and, though the
Royal Mail had previously allowed it to be used, JISC decided to choose
another one that could remain constant in future. The software was changed
from that developed by Newcastle themselves to the commercially available
LISTSERV software; note that this change would also have occured if
Newcastle had not lost the contract.
Please send any queries or comments about this to me at
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or
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and not to the list. However, I would ask that you check the new Allstat
Introduction & FAQ and the JISCmail web site - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ -
before contacting me.
Regards,
Ewan
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Dr Ewan Crawford
Allstat list owner
LTSN Maths, Stats & O.R. Centre
Department of Statistics Phone : +44 (0)141 330 4873
University of Glasgow Fax : +44 (0)141 330 4814
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