there is an urgent need to move the openEHR community mailing lists from
their current location at CHIME, UCL to another location. We have now
researched commercial options for handling mailman lists, and have found
a number of suitable providers. In all cases, we would move the archives
of all lists, as well as automatically resubscribing all members of all
lists.
For most of these offerings, it looks as if we will have to change list
address, i.e. openehr-technical at openehr.org will become
openehr-technical@*lists*.openehr.org.
The consequences of this are (assuming the automatic resubscription):
* taking part in new discussion threads should work normally
* responding to existing threads, containing the original list
address, will probably not work (unless we make redirection of mail
to xxx at openehr.org => xxx at lists.openehr.org work)
* any saved copies of openehr list addresses will be wrong. Usually
people don't rely on such things for mailing lists, so this should
not be a big problem.
for the moment at least, the lists.openehr.org and openehr.org domains
will be in different places.
The solution above appears to be the only one available at the moment,
and costs money, unless an academic institution in the openEHR network
wants to offer to host mailing lists.
This move is part of a larger move of openEHR's online presence out of
UCL. It appears that for most things (SVN, Jira, Atlassian, website),
paid online hosting will be the way to go, unless there are academic
institutions interested in taking on the job. These changes will mean a)
some (hopefully small) upheavals in the user experience, and b) some
costs that need to be covered. I would think the board would be
interested in any help on the second score.
- thomas beale
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