[Magdalen] status of Magdalen list

[James Handsfield]

Thanks, Brian.  I know that ATT uses the Yahoo system but for various reasons, I do not want to go back to gmail.  I did notice that you changed the subject header to Magdalen from the previous Mgdln.  No big deal - I’ve already chanced my preferences for pub mail to go to my Magdalen folder.

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Thinking one can behave their way into heaven is an insult to the very foundation of salvation.

Jim Handsfield
jhandsfield at att.net





On Sep 7, 2014, at 2:42 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> We're sorry that Magdalen was disrupted for so long. This was not our intent.
> 
> Brian and the crew at SoAJ.