[ROVERNET - UK] Rovernet moving

David Walker concinnity at woosh.co.nz
Tue May 20 14:10:08 BST 2008


And yes from David Walker in NZ  :-)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Russell" <p6rovers at yahoo.com>
To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Rovernet moving


> Many thanks, Ken.
> Let me know if you feel is if you are subscribed.
> I have had an off-list support so the little list is
> expanding already :-)
>
> This main list suffered from, "Yes - server problems"
> "It should be rectified now. I restarted the server
> hosting the list software the other day to apply an
> emergency security update and checked all services
> were back up except one component involved in the
> mailing list hosting (as I only recently migrated it
> there). This downtime caused a backlog on the mail
> server that feeds it, and the mail server that feeds
> it has been having problems under heavy load - still
> don't know the cause of that, I think it's a disk
> problem but the OS isn't reporting one. Sorry for my
> terse and late reply but my focus was on getting the
> infrastructure running again."
>
> Noted Matt, one of our admin chaps in the UK.
>
> Eric
>
> --- "Gundry, Kenneth" <KG at dolby.com> wrote:
>
>> Message received in duplicate!
>>
>> My answers are yes and yes.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ken Gundry kg at Dolby.com
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eric Russell [mailto:p6rovers at yahoo.com]
>> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 10:34 AM
>> To: Rovernet
>> Subject: [ROVERNET - UK] Rovernet moving
>>
>>
>> The company who is paying the bill for the Rovernet
>> mailing list site is
>> New Information Paradigms or NIP Ltd. in the UK.
>> They are running it
>> from one of their web domains called <ccdata.com>.
>> They would like to
>> sell that domain name and they have asked us to
>> move.
>>
>> In anticipation of that move, I have reserved the
>> domain <rovernet.ca>
>> as a locating home page for a new location.  The
>> problem is how to
>> seamlessly move that database of 308 names and email
>> addresses to a new
>> location and the present archives of messages.
>> Currently, the systems administrator of the
>> <roverclub.ca> website and a
>> few other sites which I manage, has been unhelpful
>> in the extreme.  All
>> aspects of the move will have to be up to me and the
>> systems
>> administrator of our current list in the UK.
>> He is willing to help.
>>
>> I am working out the technical details of a move. I
>> need to determine if
>> it is possible to move the Rovernet membership
>> database as a block or do
>> I have to type in individual names and addresses
>> separately.
>>
>> I'd like to be able to also move the archives as a
>> block.  The current
>> problem is that I can't "see" the folder on my test
>> site.  I have asked
>> the UK admin chap if the archives can be exported to
>> another form.
>> I am awaiting an answer.
>>
>> Linda and I will be leaving on May 29 for a trip to
>> the car show in
>> Massachusetts and then on to the Maritime provinces,
>> Montreal, Ottawa,
>> and Toronto before returning home in mid-July.  I
>> don't plan a Rovernet
>> move before that date.
>>
>> I have set-up a new "Rovernet-CANADA" test site.  I
>> have entered my
>> three email addresses and the system seems to work.
>>
>> I have two questions to ask of the subscribers.
>> (Most important):
>> 1.  When it is time to move the list, are you
>> interested in being moved
>> over to the new list?
>>
>> *****NOTES:****
>> You may have to enter your personal options and
>> reset such options as
>> "digest only" or anything else you have selected.
>> You may or may not receive an automatic notice to
>> confirm your
>> membership.
>> If you are agreeable, you don't have to respond to
>> this message.
>> If you *do not* want to be subscribed to the new
>> list, please say so:
>> <p6rovers at yahoo.com>
>> *************************
>> (Less important)
>> 2.  If you are willing to be (perhaps temporarily)
>> subscribed to the new
>> test list, please let me know.
>> It would help me test and learn a new system.  I
>> haven't had to
>> administer the operation before. You would receive
>> some test messages
>> and it would be useful if you just replied to say
>> that you received
>> them.  This wouldn't happen too often.
>>
>> NOTES:
>> It could be that better access to the files of the
>> mailing list will be
>> required and I have to establish the list on a site
>> which specializes in
>> running this "Mailman" mailing list.
>>
>> Eric Russell
>> List Manager
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Webmaster of The Rover Car Club of Canada
>> Website:  http://www.roverclub.ca/
>> Webmaster of a variety of sites from:
>> http://www.websrus.ca
>>
>>
>>
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