Time for Class Action?
On 16 Aug 2012, at 19:55, BSAG <[email protected]> wrote: > As some of you may have seen on Twitter or elsewhere, Joyent has rather > controversially ended its commitment to hosting those of its customers who > bought Lifetime accounts: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/ex-joyeurs > > I was one of those Lifetimers :-( > > That means that I've got to find a new host for my own blog and a few other > things, but more urgently, I need to find a new home for this mailing list. > This is currently hosted on Joyent and I suspect that it might be somewhat of > a pain to move. Luckily we had already moved the getontracks.org site off > Joyent on to Github, so we don't have to sort that out. > > Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions for what we should do? The problem > is that they are just deleting everything at the end of October, which give > me very little time to act (I have a holiday coming up in just over a week, > and then the very busy start of term). > > The way I see it, we have a few alternatives (not necessarily mutually > exclusive): > > * Just find somewhere to archive the old mailing list (static HTML if I can > get it?) and move to a new system > * I could see if I could set up a new mailing list at my new host (wherever > that might be) and try to port it over > * Start afresh and ditch the archives > * something else? > > I'm not even sure what's out there in terms of Mailman alternatives? I've > seen a few specialist mailing list providers, but they are typically set up > for large commercial ventures and so are overkill/too expensive for what we > need. > > HALP! :-( Any suggestions welcome. > > cheers, > > bsag > > -- > but she's a girl - the weblog of a female geek > http://www.rousette.org.uk > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Tracks-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss _______________________________________________ Tracks-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss
