[ROVERNET - UK] Rovernet moving

[Mark Brown]

I'd like to stay on as well :)

Mark Brown


On 22-May-08, at 1:22 PM, Eric Russell wrote:

> Actually, yes I am.
> I open a subscription window for the new list, check
> the current list, and then copy and paste the
> addresses of the replies into the new list.
>
> Thanks to all.
> I've have only had one person wanting to get off the
> "merry-go-round"/carousel
>
> Eric
>
>
> --- Ray Wilkins <Raymond.wilkins at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
>> Goodness what a response. I'm not sure if Eric is
>> keeping tabs on all the
>> replies but as everyone else appears to have replied
>> I guess I better also
>> reply in the affirmative!
>>
>> Ray Wilkins
>> 1976 P6B
>> Melbourne, Australia
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eric Russell [mailto:p6rovers at yahoo.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, 20 May 2008 5:50 AM
>> To: rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com
>> 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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>
> 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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