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RE: Closure of the europa mailing list

Reeve, Jack W.
Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:44:32 -0800

Hi Jeff,

Thanks too, from me for running this thing.

I'm a novice with regard to this.  What does one need to do and what
does it take to maintain a mailing list such as this?

Jack W Reeve
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Foust [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 12:16 AM
To: europa@klx.com
Subject: Closure of the europa mailing list


Hello,

For the last several years I have been hosting this mailing list, which 
was originally intended to facilitate communications among those 
interested in the Europa Icepick mission concept.  That effort has long 
since faded away, and the mailing list has been used primarily for 
sending press releases and sporadic discussions on topics usually not 
related to Europa or spacecraft missions to it.

While I would be content to let the list linger on in this condition 
indefinitely under ideal conditions, the growing avalanche of junk 
email that this list attracts is putting a growing strain on the server 
that hosts not just the list, but several web sites and one large email 
distribution list as well.  This makes it increasingly difficult to 
support the operation of this list.

Therefore, I must sadly inform you that this list will be shut down in 
one week, on Saturday, March 5.  At that time the list will no longer 
relay messages and the list of subscribers will be destroyed.  
Hopefully, this one-week period will give any interested parties the 
time needed to create and announce a new list to the group.  Again, I 
regret having to make such a move, but the current state of Internet 
email traffic leaves me no other options.

Sincerely,
Jeff Foust
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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