[78-L] Admin message: You can still send your emails to 78-L at 78online.com

[Ron Fial]

(1)  Thank you for all the great comments.  I still have a lot of clean-up to do over the next month.  I will need to setup online access to all the old emails (archives).l  I have the archives safely backed up, but the format is different.

(2) When sending email to 78-L,  don't use the host name 'klickitat'.   It works but is not desirable.  I will have to fix the list (where it says to use 'klickitat' in the address).

    You should send your emails to the list to 78-L at 78online.com  just like before. 
    That is how this message was addressed.   This will never change.

     Don't use the server 'hostname', as in 78-L at klickitat.78online.com 
     That wont wor'k if the list is moved from the server named 'klickitat' to 
     the server named 'cluster1'.

(3)  I will be contacting all the people who had 'nomail' subscriptions.  They can now be subscribers but with 'Deliver-Email' turned off.  Note:  The old list allowed the same address to have a regular and also a digest subscription.  The new list does not allow that unless you use a different email address for the second subscription.

(4)  Each 78-L member now has a 'personal' home page, accessed using  8-character password.
You were mailed a link to that personal page.  As long as you have the link, you can go to the page and request that your password be re-sent to you.  Once you log in, you can:
      (a)  Turn email to yourself on and off
      (b)  Change from regular-list to digest-list
      (c)  Unsubscribe
      (4)  Change your subscribed email address
      (5)  Change your password
      (6)  Other options like 'topics'  which are not relevant right now.

(5)  It is also to do the things in (4) using emails.  But the format is different from the old list,
      I will explain more as we go alone.

(6)  Currently, emails are limited to 30,000 characters maximum.  They are mostly under 2000.  But the 'mailman' program counts characters in the arriving email, before attachments are stripped.  The old list stripped the attachments, then counted characters.   The problem is one person has a signature that includes .jpg images where the image itself  is over 30,000 characters.   Then the post comes to the list-owner for 'approval'.   I am trying to find a work-around for this.

(7)  Digests are sent out once per day (default), or when the mail since the last digest totals over 40,000 characters.  The default-digest is sent at 9PM,  I will be changing that after I make sure it doesnt hurt any other 'automatic' tasks.  The old list always sent the default-digest out at about 5AM.  

(8)  The old list used 'Phorum' software to view the archives via the web, and had a powerful search function, although its 'threading' was not real great.  While the new list has web-based archive viewing and threading use the 'Pipermail' software, the search feature is missing.  So I may re-institute the older Phorum/mysqldatabase software for accessing the archive.

Regards,  
   Ron Fial,   78-L list manager