Re: IMPORTANT: DO WE WANT TO MOVE THIS LIST??!!

HI Chris,

I can repost all the messages for the archives, including the
old Mills ones (once I've done those) to the new list
if desired.

Same system as before - only repost the ones for members
who say they are happy for that to be done, and
make it opt in.

Also, I'm not sure but I'd have thought it was
reasonable to assume all those who have said
they want their posts in the archive would also be
happy to have them re-posted (unless someone
says otherwise).

It is very easy as my archiving program can send the
e-mails by itself, and one can just leave it running.
If the receiving list serve has a safety
thing to permit only so many e-mails to be sent
to it per 30 minutes or something it can
be set to send them at whatever is a suitable
rate.

Sounds good to me!

Robert

Hi Jon,

> ...and if they are, they'll see this and move to the new, stable home
> of the list.

Yes, and if one leaves the tuning posts still in place at
Yahoogroups, they will notice that no new posts are arriving from it,
and if interested enough in it need only look at the most recent e-mails
or digests to figure out why, and see all the messages about the move.

I'd certainly suggest that. Also means if one looks for "tuning" in
the yahoogropus gropu one will find the group and the archives.
Need to make sure that if it does stop functioning as a group, then
the last few posts to it include the address of the new group,
or the home page for it does. That's happened to me before that I've
done a search for a yahoogroups group and found a group that has stopped
functioning at yahoogroups, but has a few posts at the end about the
new location, so ti is easy to follow the trail.

It is possible for a commercial thing like Yahoogroups to just stop
doing what it is doing - this happened last year with One List, which
was a large list provider with many lists on it - they just closed up
with a few months notice or so and then those who weren't prepared to
migrate their lists to a paying service lost all their posts in the
on-line archives.

I'd say symptoms don't look that good at present with all the things they seem
to be doing to try and get some revenue from it - unless they can
figure out some way of earning from it while keeping it free
and not causing too much hassle in the way of advertisements
- one can understand their dilemma ! Naturally it will be because of the
large drop recently, last year, in the amount advertisers are willing
to pay to host an advert on a web site (was it ten-fold,
or hundred-fold??).

Just one thing to consider - for the long term, perhaps many years ahead.
Universities and colleges don't close down often, but they do
sometimes change their policies. But then so do commercial sites
and they are perhaps more volatile being dependent on advertising.

We can migrate whenever needed, and I don't see it is of any great
significance where we actually post to. Having unlimited files
area will be great!

Anyway, that's my vote on this matter!

Robert