[Magdalen] status of Magdalen list

[Susan Hagen]

Thank you very much Brian and crew!
Susan

On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
> 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.



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