Important list announcement!

[Dan Simoes <dans@ans.net>]

No, it's not free Audis to all :).  Listen up folks:

- As of Monday, Feb 27th, the quattro list will be moving to a new
  machine.  The old alias on swiss.ans.net will point to the new
  machine for a couple of weeks or so, just in case any new 
  requests come in before the general internet 'list of lists'
  goes out.

- The new machine is called coimbra.ans.net.  For the curious, it is 
  a Sparc 10 and is named after a city in Portugal.  It is also 
  my personal workstation, so think twice about trying to hack in 
  or break something.  I wouldn't expect anyone on this list to 
  do that though, you're all busy under the cars anyway :)

- I figure now is a good time to TRY the list with the Reply-to
  set to the sender.  THAT MEANS THAT WHEN YOU REPLY TO A MESSAGE,
  UNLESS YOU SPECIFICALLY cc: THE LIST, WE WON'T SEE YOUR NOTE!
  Excuse me for shouting, but I don't want to spend weeks forwarding
  notes to the list.  The reason for this change?  Some people have 
  complained that their mailers don't allow them to see who the sender
  is, making a reply to sender only impossible.  My personal feeling is
  that since this is a discussion list, we can all benefit from the
  exchange of information, so it makes sense to have all replies go
  to the list.  Either way should work fine if we all follow the rules.
  If list traffic drops dramatically or enough people complain, we can
  go back to the old method.

- The gopher server will probably go away, unless I hear from people
  who want it and can't use Mosaic or Lynx to access the data using
  http (WWW).  swiss was running the GN server which serves both 
  protocols with one data set, but coimbra will be running NCSA or CERN
  httpd.

- That said, http support will continue.  I'm looking for volunteers 
  to break up the archives (month by month) into specific topic files
  as I had been doing in the past.  I just don't have time for that
  anymore, and it would be nice to open a file called 'brakes' rather
  than downloading quattro.94* and doing a 'grep brakes *'.

- The archives will probably also be available for ftp (this was
  not the case on swiss)

- In a month or so, I will upgrade the version of majordomo on 
  coimbra, which should allow me to filter out some of the bounces
  and sub/unsub requests.  This change should be transparent.

I think that's all.  Please direct any comments/suggestions/flames to
me.

| Dan |
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