Last reminder. We’ll shut down the old list next week. - mark
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Mark Newton <new...@atdot.dotat.org> > Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Reminder: Mailing list relocation > Date: 6 September 2018 at 3:40:54 AM GMT+10 > To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." > <aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au> > Reply-To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." > <aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au> > > Reposting again, and observing that the spam load has been particularly high > for the last week for some reason. I think it’s the mailing list saying it’s > had enough :) > > Let’s sunset this one: Middle of September makes it a month since i set up > the new Google Group. That’s probably an adequate time to start turning this > one off. > > I had one person who couldn’t find the new list on the link below, but could > with this one: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/aus-soaring > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/aus-soaring> > No idea why one worked and the other didn’t, but I’m including it here for > completeness. > > Regards, > > - mark > > >> On Aug 26, 2018, at 3:21 AM, Mark Newton <new...@atdot.dotat.org >> <mailto:new...@atdot.dotat.org>> wrote: >> >> Reposting from last week: >> >> Some of you might recall that this list was moved from Internode to Base64 >> some time ago. >> >> Well: It’s moving again. >> >> The software which has been running the group is called Mailman, and it’s >> showing its age. In particular, its ability to handle escalating volumes of >> spam is somewhat compromised. The mailboxes of Simon and I fill up with vast >> quantities of the stuff, and “backscatter attacks” cause Mailman to suspend >> your subscriptions, causing us to field queries about unexpected >> unsubscriptions. >> >> Simon and I had a quick chat about this last week, and decided to move it to >> a Google Group. >> >> The group is called aus-soaring (naturally). You should be able to subscribe >> to it by navigating to https://groups.google.com/d/forum/aus-soaring >> <https://groups.google.com/d/forum/aus-soaring> and using the drop-down menu >> button near the top right corner. >> > > >> Google Groups has far better spam protections, a good web interface, and you >> can still interact with it by email if you wish. Once you’re on board, you >> can email aus-soar...@googlegroups.com <mailto:aus-soar...@googlegroups.com> >> to make your voice heard. >> >> For privacy reasons, I’m not going to force-subscribe anyone to the new >> Group, you’ll need to do it yourself. >> >> We’re going to keep this list running on Base64’s mail server for another >> month or so, but will eventually abandon it. There’ll be some more reminders >> before that happens. >> >> Questions or comments? Fire away, happy to help. >> >> Regards, >> >> - mark >> _______________________________________________ >> Aus-soaring mailing list >> Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au <mailto:Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au> >> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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