Brian - this is great news. THANK YOU so much for your efforts with the AMRadio Group!
Wonderful idea to move it. 73 - Bry AF4K On Thu Dec 15 16:19:13 PST 2005, Brian Sherrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To all members of the AMRadio List; > > The AMRadio list will soon have it's own dedicated list server! > There will no longer > be other lists running concurrently, sending and receiving mail > to slow things down > as > is the case with the qth.net server. QTH.NET has served us well > since 2001 however, > and I appreciate Al Waller's contribution to amateur radio. > > This change will not affect much in regard to what you see except > for faster posting > of emails to the list. You should notice that when you send an > email to the list > that > it will be returned to you _from_ the list MUCH faster than > before. > > The other reason I wanted to do this was to have more control > over the list archives. > I will now be able to setup a "search engine" for all members > that will allow you to > find keywords within the archives. In the meantime, I have also > been downloading ALL > the old archive off qth.net which go back to Dec. of 2002. There > are over 8050 > archived posts many of which are extremely valuable from a > technical standpoint. > > As soon as I have the search engine setup, I will post the > address to this. > > I will post another message to the list as soon as the new list > server is ready. All > members will be transferred to the new list, so you will not have > to do anything, > except those who have setup special options, such as digest mode. > For the those > members, > all you will need to do is edit your settings as before. > > There will be a new email address to send list mail to. I will > also post this > address when > everything is ready, so you can update your address book, etc. > Be sure you do this, > since > posting to the old address will be posting to a dead list. I > will send out two or > three reminders > on the old list prior to this transition. > > On another important note; I have asked Paul/wa3vjb to assist me > in admin type things > due to the fact I am not always around to keep an eye out. He > has graciously > accepted, and I am in his debt. Thanks Paul! > > > Please stay tuned! > Brian / w5ami > > > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net > AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami, Paul Courson/wa3vjb > >
