On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:08:33AM +0200, Rolf E. Sonneveld wrote: > 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!
Yes! > 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. You are not alone. Sometimes I toy with the idea of building a gadget with a zillion channel-specific plugins which would harvest all of that stuff I have to track and email it to me. So, since I never heard of MCommunity and have no idea what it is, I have to ask: does this mean there won't be any more emails? Will I have to go join it, or will the LISTSERV member list be copied over? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient.
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