On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:40:10 +0200 > From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PG] Important! List moving to perl.org > > Grüezi miteinand, > > Welcome to the newly re-homed perl-gecdcom list. > > You should all have received Bill's last message to the old list. If > you are reading this, then you have been successfully transferred over > to the new list. I have included the administrative commands for the > list at the end of this message, but if all else fails feel free to > contact me with any list problems. > > The new address for posting to the list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I don't propose to change anything concerning the nature of this list. > It seems to have worked well over a number of years and I hope it will > continue to do so. I'd like to publicly thank Bill for setting up the > original list and for managing it so well for so many years. > > You will notice a few minor changes now the list is hosted at perl.org. > Probably most noticeable will be that the subject will no longer have > [PG] prepended. (I have deliberately left it in the subject of this > message.) If you were using that for filtering purposes, please select > one of the other headers for that purpose. Also important is that the > Reply-To header is no longer munged. This means that in order for your > replies to reach the list you will need to do a reply to all, or a group > reply. > > I realise that these differences may cause a little inconvenience or > confusion initially, but they are not going to change, so let's not > clutter the list with meta discussions on the topic. > > As compensation, we should eventually get list archives, NNTP access and > an RSS RDF feed. > > Take a moment to familiarise yourselves with the commands below, if they > are not already familiar to you, and archive this message for reference. > > Once again, my thanks to Bill for all his work. We now return you to > your regularly scheduled Perl and and GEDCOM discussion. > > >
The above message is the last that I have received from the list. I am wondering whether this is due to the sporadic nature of the list, or is due to the changes in the list. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................
