[Magdalen] status of Magdalen list

[Brian Reid]

A couple of months ago, AOL and Yahoo changed their email systems in a 
way that was raising havoc with all of the world's mailing lists, 
including Magdalen.

A revised version of the "Mailman" software, which Magdalen uses, became 
available. But it turned out not to be possible to upgrade the existing 
system. We at SoAJ (who host Magdalen) had to get a new server computer 
and start from scratch.

There were some rough patches along the way, but as of this moment 
(8:40am US Eastern time) I believe that everything is working the way it 
is supposed to, that people who don't want Digest mode are not 
accidentally on Digest mode, and the world is again a safe place.

This update results in AOL and Yahoo subscribers being treated as 
second-class citizens. There is nothing we can do about that. Your posts 
will still get through, but they won't come from you. They will come 
from Magdalen "on behalf of" you. If this annoys you there are lots of 
other ISPs out there.

We're sorry that Magdalen was disrupted for so long. This was not our 
intent.

Brian and the crew at SoAJ.