A long time ago I set up Aus-Soaring Facebook version. 416 members currently, with various admins around the state, I must say it’s been trouble free as an admin.
Sent from my iPad > On 13 Sep 2018, at 9:50 am, Christopher McDonnell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Have there been any posts on the old list recently? I have not seen any. > > From: Mark Newton > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 9:35 AM > To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. > Subject: [Aus-soaring] Fwd: Reminder: Mailing list relocation > > Last reminder. We’ll shut down the old list next week. > > - mark > > > >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: Mark Newton <[email protected]> >> 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." >> <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." >> <[email protected]> >> >> 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 >> 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 <[email protected]> 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 and using the drop-down menu >>> button near the top right corner. >>> >> <Screen Shot 2018-08-10 at 11.05.52 PM.png> >> >>> 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 mailto:[email protected] 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 >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Aus-soaring mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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