Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/04

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Subject: [Leica] new LUG
From: jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Sat Sep 4 06:33:21 2004
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Brian,

Good news! Glad to hear of the upgrade. How can you afford this with no 
dues? I know it can't be from the National Endowment for the Humanities. ;-)

Jeffery


At 04:24 PM 3/18/2004, you wrote:
>I have just finished converting the LUG over to a new software base.
>I've been meaning to do this for years, but I finally decided that I 
>couldn't wait any longer.
>
>I have switched from Majordomo to Mailman. You don't have to care, except:
>
>* There is a nice web-based interface to let you adjust your subscription
>* there are quite a few new options for subscription, including temporary 
>"nomail" status, new digest options, and choice of interface language.
>
>I had three reasons for switching:
>
>1. This new system is much more virus- and spam-immune.
>2. The new system allows people to send messages that are not plaintext; 
>it knows how to convert them to plaintext automatically.
>3. The new system automates about 95% of the work in running a mailing 
>list. This means much much less work for me.
>
>There are 1113 members of the LUG today. Plus 10 more of you on leica2, 
>which I haven't quite figured out how to convert.
>
>Send to
>         lug@leica-users.org
>
>over the next week or two I am going to phase out the name 
>leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us so that, by mid April, if you send to 
>it, you will get a little reminder that the name of the list has changed.
>
>Brian Reid
>your saloonkeeper
>
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