Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information