[lojban-beginners] This list will move soon.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

(for those of you on the main list: yes, this is basically a repeat,
and yes, it does apply to the beginner's list)

The short version: list is moving to google groups; this probably
won't break anything for anyone, or ever require anyone to change
their behaviour.

I've uploaded all but March of this list's mails to
http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners/topics , which
didn't actually take that much effort since I had already done all
the hard work for the main list.  :)

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


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And I'm  thinking:  "Does it even occur to you to try for something
other  than  the default  outcome?"  See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz
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