From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Mar 17 13:27:41 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Nrzq6-0007nF-WC for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:27:40 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Nrzpr-0007km-Dv for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:27:24 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:27:23 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: This list will move soon. Message-ID: <20100317202723.GG25330@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20100317202134.GF25330@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100317202134.GF25330@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 17274 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list To clarify: this shouldn't make much of any difference to anyone, except during the time when the list is all the way off. -Robin On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:21:34PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > I've been working *very* hard for the last several weeks on > compiling an as-complete-as-possible collection of all the main > Lojban list mails, ever. It's not complete, but at 45 thousand > mails, it's pretty impressive. :) > > http://groups.google.com/group/lojban/topics?gvc=2 is the google > group resulting from what I've done, and represents a staggering > amount of work. I expect praise. > > The driving issue here is that for many years I was getting regular > requests to make a web forum, but I didn't want to split the > community, so I found software (Tiki) that could keep an email list > and a web forum synchronized. > > The problem is, it keeps breaking, and I'm tired of fixing it. On > top of that, managing non-trivial email these days is itself a full > time job (because of disparate spam protection at different ISPs), > and I'm tired of doing it. > > So, I'm outsourcing the mailing list to Google, which solves both > this problems very well, so I don't have to keep spending my time > working on obnoxious busy-work, when I could actually be doing stuff > to further Lojban. > > Some time in the next few days, when I get a few hours to rub > together, the current list will be totally shut down, the last bits > of mail will be uploaded, and the current list of subscribers will > be transferred. > > The current email address for the list will still work, it will just > forward to google groups instead. > > -Robin > > -- > They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." > And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something > other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz > http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org > with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if > you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help. > -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.