In the immortal words of Monty Python, "Wait! I'm not dead yet!"... :-)
Unfortunately, while I'd like to blame this weekend's glitches on somebody else, I can't; it's all my fault. I am, indeed, moving to Australia, but I don't leave for another couple of weeks. The various domains and lists that I administer are all staying here in the USA, however. The pair of BSD boxes that they've been running on for years are getting kinda long in the tooth, and have started getting unreliable lately. While they were in the closet under my staircase, that didn't really matter, because I could go kick them at will, as needed. Simon Cooper (my coauthor on Building Internet Firewalls, 2nd Edition) has been good enough to offer my machines a home while I'm in Oz. I don't want to stick him with a pile of ever-flakier hardware to deal with, though, so I'm trying to get everything moved onto a single, up-to-date, reliable machine before I leave. As part of putting everything onto a single machine, I wanted to switch to Majordomo2, for two reasons. First, the original Majordomo is essentially dead, unmaintained code at this point, and I wanted to get some experience with Majordomo2 before it is officially "released". Second, I'm hoping that using Majordomo2 will encourage its developers to actually go ahead and release it. Third, Majordomo2 supports virtual domains much more easily than Majordomo, and I needed that capability in order to get everything onto a single machine. Ideally, I would have made this change weeks ago, to allow more "soak time" before I leave, but I've been busy with other more urgent preparations. C'est la vie. So anyway, I've fixed (I think) the digest numbering, and switched all digest subscribers from MIME-format (the default chosen by the Majordomo2 conversion script) to text-format digests. Next, I'm going to work on getting the archives back online and up to date. I'm sure there will be other glitches, but please bear with me as I work through them. -Brent -- Brent Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Great Circle Associates, Inc. Specializing in IT infrastructure for Silicon Valley startups since 1989 For info about our services, please see http://www.greatcircle.com/startups/
