Did anyone notice? You should have gotten new "welcome to RangerNet" announcements because of the move. I actually created a new list and subscribed everyone that was subscribed to the old list to the new one, then destroyed the old list. The move was a little less orderly than I would have liked, because the hosting service (dtsinetadvantage.com) was complaining about majordomo hogging the CPU. They also shut down all web sites associated with that account, including RangerNet.org, ebt.cx, kahunapule.org, worldenglishbible.com, worldenglishbible.net, webible.org, hnvbible.org, mpj.us, bible.cx, womensresource.org, etc. (I'm shopping for a less rude hosting solution... preferably a dedicated server that can host all of those sites and more without causing problems.)

For now, the RangerNet mailing list is running back on the eBible.org server with majordomo, again. It can't stay here indefinitely, because majordomo has some serious defects in a spam-infested world. Some time in the not-to-distant future, it will be moved to both new server running new mailing list management software. I'm thinking that the days of using email-based commands to manage mailing lists are over because of spam. We will move to a true web-based mailing list manager, like maybe Mailman. (The web interface that we have now at http://rangernet.org/subscribe.htm and http://eBible.org/subscribe.htm actually just generates email messages to send to majordomo.)

The majordomo program is courteous. Too courteous, actually. It always answers email sent to it, even if that email was from a virus mail with a forged return address that happens to be an autoresponder. Such emails tend to go back and forth forever (or until the autoresponder or majordomo shuts down).


-- Kahunapule Michael P. Johnson http://Kahunapule.org

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