[ROVERNET - UK] Rovernet moving

[Eric Russell]

Actually, yes I am.
I open a subscription window for the new list, check
the current list, and then copy and paste the
addresses of the replies into the new list.

Thanks to all.
I've have only had one person wanting to get off the
"merry-go-round"/carousel

Eric


--- Ray Wilkins <Raymond.wilkins at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Goodness what a response. I'm not sure if Eric is
> keeping tabs on all the
> replies but as everyone else appears to have replied
> I guess I better also
> reply in the affirmative!
> 
> Ray Wilkins
> 1976 P6B
> Melbourne, Australia
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Russell [mailto:p6rovers at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 20 May 2008 5:50 AM
> To: rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com
> Subject: [ROVERNET - UK] Rovernet moving
> 
> The company who is paying the bill for the Rovernet
> mailing list site is New Information Paradigms or
> NIP
> Ltd. in the UK.  They are running it from one of
> their
> web domains called <ccdata.com>. They would like to
> sell that domain name and they have asked us to
> move.
> 
> In anticipation of that move, I have reserved the
> domain <rovernet.ca> as a locating home page for a
> new
> location.  The problem is how to seamlessly move
> that
> database of 308 names and email addresses to a new
> location and the present archives of messages.
> Currently, the systems administrator of the
> <roverclub.ca> website and a few other sites which I
> manage, has been unhelpful in the extreme.  All
> aspects of the move will have to be up to me and the
> systems administrator of our current list in the UK.
> 
> He is willing to help.
> 
> I am working out the technical details of a move. I
> need to determine if it is possible to move the
> Rovernet membership database as a block or do I have
> to type in individual names and addresses
> separately.
> 
> I'd like to be able to also move the archives as a
> block.  The current problem is that I can't "see"
> the
> folder on my test site.  I have asked the UK admin
> chap if the archives can be exported to another
> form. 
> I am awaiting an answer.
> 
> Linda and I will be leaving on May 29 for a trip to
> the car show in Massachusetts and then on to the
> Maritime provinces, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto
> before returning home in mid-July.  I don't plan a
> Rovernet move before that date.
> 
> I have set-up a new "Rovernet-CANADA" test site.  I
> have entered my three email addresses and the system
> seems to work.
> 
> I have two questions to ask of the subscribers.
> (Most important):
> 1.  When it is time to move the list, are you
> interested in being moved over to the new list?
> 
> *****NOTES:****
> You may have to enter your personal options and
> reset
> such options as "digest only" or anything else you
> have selected.
> You may or may not receive an automatic notice to
> confirm your membership.
> If you are agreeable, you don't have to respond to
> this message.
> If you *do not* want to be subscribed to the new
> list,
> please say so:  <p6rovers at yahoo.com>
> *************************
> (Less important)
> 2.  If you are willing to be (perhaps temporarily)
> subscribed to the new test list, please let me know.
> It would help me test and learn a new system.  I
> haven't had to administer the operation before. You
> would receive some test messages and it would be
> useful if you just replied to say that you received
> them.  This wouldn't happen too often.
> 
> NOTES:
> It could be that better access to the files of the
> mailing list will be required and I have to
> establish
> the list on a site which specializes in running this
> "Mailman" mailing list.
> 
> Eric Russell
> List Manager
> 
> 
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