[aklug] Re: aklug-test list

Sorry for the lack of feedback. I think it's great that you guys are
working on this, I think that mailman is the best fit, and I apologize for
not having time to look at it after my initial signup fell prey to the MTA
issue. I'll try again as soon as I can.

Royce

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Christopher Howard <
christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:

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> Hey guys, David is out on vacation this week, so I am speaking out on
> behalf of his aklug-test list. He was hoping more of you guys would
> try it out this week, to see if you liked how it worked or wanted
> anything tweaked. I've been playing around with it myself and am very
> happy with it. We had some initial problems with his mail server
> configuration, but once that was smoothed out, everything works like
> clockwork. As far as I can tell, it provides all the same
> functionality of our current list, except that it has proper MIME
> support. I tested it with PGP, image attachments, and various
> formatting approaches, and it works great. You guys might have other
> weird attachments to try.
>
> If I might be blunt: I've been a little surprised by the lack of
> interest and encouragement shown to David after he offered to host the
> list, especially in view of the complaints that have been made about
> our current list. I understand that sometimes it is easier to stick
> with what works than to improve the situation, but in this case David
> has done all the hard work for us -- not only providing the server
> space (pro bono) but configuring and managing all the software
> himself. I think we'd be pretty stupid not to switch over to a list
> hosting situation managed by a fellow AKLUG'er, rather than continuing
> to rely on an old university listserv that we can't tweak, mod, or
> improve.
>
>

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Received on Tue Sep 18 13:06:58 2012