The membership was copied over and mail will continue to flow for this list.
Luke Sent from my iPhone On Jun 18, 2013, at 8:42 AM, "Mark H. Wood" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:08:33AM +0200, Rolf E. Sonneveld wrote: >> On 06/17/2013 10:52 PM, Luke Tracy wrote: >>> >>> Hello LDAP, >>> >>> >>> LDAP is currently a listserv list maintained within the University of >>> Michigan ITS Listserver Service. That service is being retired at the >>> end of June. See Retirement of the ITS Listserver Service (Lyris) >>> <http://safecomputing.umich.edu/services/lyrisretire.html>for details. >>> >>> >>> I am planning to convert LDAPto an MCommunity group shortly. >>> MCommunity groups are simple mail groups and do not have all of the >>> same features offered by listserv lists, so there will be some loss in >>> functionality, such as digest mail. The LDAP list does not seem to be >>> very active so I'm thinking the feature difference will not have a >>> great impact on the members. >>> >>> >>> If it does have a great impact, I'm open to moving the list to an >>> alternative service, but maintaining the [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]> email address may not be possible in that case. >>> >>> >>> The LDAP listserv is an open list and anyone may subscribe and >>> unsubscribe. I am therefore planning to make the MCommunity group >>> joinable, however, only members with a University of Michigan login >>> will be able to join or resign on their own. All others will need to >>> request to join or resign. >>> >>> >>> I will send email to LDAP once I have convert the list to a group. >> >> First of all, thanks to UMich for having hosted the list for so many years! > > Yes! > >> Second: I can only speak for myself, but the last couple of years the >> number of fora I have to visit to get my information from is growing >> rapidly and in all honesty, I lost track of most of them by now. The >> nice thing of mailing lists is that you get your mail in your mailbox >> where you can sort it out: one place to monitor, one place to >> participate. Fora like LinkedIn groups, Google groups, MCommunity etc. >> are as many places which I have to visit on a regular basis to see >> what's goin on. > > You are not alone. Sometimes I toy with the idea of building a gadget > with a zillion channel-specific plugins which would harvest all of > that stuff I have to track and email it to me. > > So, since I never heard of MCommunity and have no idea what it is, I > have to ask: does this mean there won't be any more emails? Will I > have to go join it, or will the LISTSERV member list be copied over? > > -- > Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] > Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient.
