update on new server for mailing list

[John W. Eaton]

On 31-Mar-2006, I wrote:

| I'm moving the address@hidden mailing list from the current
| server that I've been maintaining to one that is managed by the UW
| Collge of Engineering.

Unfortunately, there were a few problems that prevented switching to
the new server until now.  This message should be the first to be
delivered using the new method, so if you use filtering, note the
changes in the X-Mailing-List/List-Id headers below.

As a reminder, here is the rest of the information I posted earlier:

  The new system uses Mailman and so provides a web interface for
  subscriptions and message archive here:

    https://www.cae.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/octave-maintainers

  By using Mailmain, we can provide options for message digests,
  delivery suspension, etc. (all the nice things that Mailmain can
  do).  We are still requiring that postings to the list come from
  subscribers.  It may be a few days before the message archive can be
  updated with old postings.

  I will be moving the list of subscribers over to the new server, so
  you do not need to resubscribe.  When I move the list, I think you
  should receive a message notifying you of the change.

  The current address for posting (address@hidden) will continue
  to work.  However, due to limitations with running Mailman on a shared
  server that supports many other lists, we could not use "maintainers"
  as the list name, so outgoing messages will use the address
  address@hidden  I hope that Mailman will eventually be
  fixed to allow us to use the address@hidden name.  But it is
  more important to me to move the list to the new server, so I am
  willing to accept the address@hidden name for now.

  Unfortunately, instead of adding

    X-Mailing-List: <address@hidden>

  to the header as we have been doing, Mailman will add

    List-Id: <octave-maintainers.octave.org>

  so if you are filtering messages, you will need to update your rules
  to accomodate this change. 

  I'll update the info on the www.octave.org/archive.html page soon to
  point to the new Mailman pages.


jwe