Re: [lojban] This list will move soon.

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

That is astonishing. Well done, and thank you! -Eppcott

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> 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
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