Call to move this list to lojban.org only

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Currently this list is dual-hosted on Yahoo! Groups (as lojban@yahoogroups.com)
and on lojban.org (as lojban-list@lojban.org).  I think it's time to move
off Yahoo! Groups; the lojban.org server is now very stable and we have no
problems with it.  Dual-hosting has the problem that anyone can post to
the lojban.org version whether they have signed up or not, which lets spam in.
By cutting off the Y!G version, we can eliminate that problem.

It used to be important, I think, to have the list on a major list provider
in order to give it added publicity.  I think having lojban.org does that
job better now, and Yahoo! is less than predictable as a host -- they have
imposed retroactive rules changes without warning before.

The archives are fully recoverable from Y!G, thanks to the wonderful program
yahoo2mbox, which does all the dirty work of retrieval.  We can also transfer all
subscribers automatically without problem.

Does anyone object to this?  Even if there is no objection, it will have to
wait until Robin (postmaster at lojban.org) is motivated to actually do it,
but I'd like to make sure there will be no howls of complaint.

-- 
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 I wish it were impossible."                    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan