Hi, Luke,
On 06/17/2013 10:52 PM, Luke Tracy wrote:
Hello LDAP,
LDAP is currently a listserv list maintained within the University of
Michigan ITS Listserver Service. That service is being retired at the
end of June. See Retirement of the ITS Listserver Service (Lyris)
<http://safecomputing.umich.edu/services/lyrisretire.html>for details.
I am planning to convert LDAPto an MCommunity group shortly.
MCommunity groups are simple mail groups and do not have all of the
same features offered by listserv lists, so there will be some loss in
functionality, such as digest mail. The LDAP list does not seem to be
very active so I'm thinking the feature difference will not have a
great impact on the members.
If it does have a great impact, I'm open to moving the list to an
alternative service, but maintaining the [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> email address may not be possible in that case.
The LDAP listserv is an open list and anyone may subscribe and
unsubscribe. I am therefore planning to make the MCommunity group
joinable, however, only members with a University of Michigan login
will be able to join or resign on their own. All others will need to
request to join or resign.
I will send email to LDAP once I have convert the list to a group.
First of all, thanks to UMich for having hosted the list for so many years!
Second: I can only speak for myself, but the last couple of years the
number of fora I have to visit to get my information from is growing
rapidly and in all honesty, I lost track of most of them by now. The
nice thing of mailing lists is that you get your mail in your mailbox
where you can sort it out: one place to monitor, one place to
participate. Fora like LinkedIn groups, Google groups, MCommunity etc.
are as many places which I have to visit on a regular basis to see
what's goin on.
If others have the same feeling and if there's still interest in an ldap
mailing list, I'm volunteering to host it (I run a couple of other
mailing lists using mailman software).
Just my $0.02
Regards,
/rolf
