[time-nuts] [volt-nuts] febo.com Mailing List Changes

[Jerry Hancock]

John, thanks for all you’ve done in the past.

Regards,

Jerry NK6P

> On Jun 6, 2018, at 11:17 AM, John Ackermann N8UR <jra at febo.com> wrote:
> 
> Some of you may know that febo.com lives on leased hardware at a data center.  That hardware is now at its end of service life, which means it won't be supported if it breaks.  After pondering the options for a replacement, I've decided that it's time to move away from dedicated hardware toward cloud-based services, and to offload some of the sysadmin responsibilities to people who know what they are doing.
> 
> As part of that, the febo.com mailing lists will be moving to a new list hosting provider.  I'm working to make the transition as seamless as possible.  You will not need to resubscribe to the mailing lists, or change any list settings.  The lists will continue to use the Mailman software and web interface, and will work just as they have been.
> 
> However, the address for posting messages will change.  Instead of sending to, for example, "time-nuts at febo.com" you'll now send to
> "time-nuts at lists.febo.com" -- just adding "lists." to the domain.
> 
> The new addresses should be working now.  On June 15, the old addresses will stop working; all postings after that date need to be to
> <list-name>@lists.febo.com.
> 
> Around July 1, the lists will move to the new hosting company.  We will probably turn the lists off for a day or two during that transition, and I'll send a note when that is about to happen.  When the lists come back, you should see no further changes.
> 
> A note about the list archives, which have been accessible by going to, for example, "https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts", and which Google does a pretty good job of indexing.  Going forward, the archive URL will change as well, using the lists.febo.com domain.  That may impact search results until Google indexes the new site.  I'll maintain the existing archives as of the cutover date at the old URL to mitigate the problem.  Between June 15 and July 1, archive access may be a bit flaky.
> 
> This change will improve the reliability of the mailing lists, and remove several single points of failure.  It should allow the lists to continue indefinitely into the future.  I hope that the transition doesn't cause you too much inconvenience.  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me directly at jra at febo.com.
> 
> John Ackermann
> Your SysAdmin
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