[RTTY] Moving list

[RTTY]

That's good sense. We have a system that works and we know the problems that 
everyone has seen. Bill has been working hard to find the answers for all of 
us, so let's just give him a break for a while and get back to the radio.

John GW4SKA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RTTY" <rtty at contesting.com>
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Moving list


>I think everyone needs to accept that all software is fallibleand at first 
>blush this looks like it is a bug in one of the two previous updates to 
>Mailman.  Mailman is a very large and complex piece of software that by its 
>very nature is difficult to debug.
>
> Add to that the fact that contesting.com as an organization has its own 
> policies and procedures in effect regarding the installation of any 
> software as primary to its purpose as Mailman (i.e., red tape).
>
> Because the problem is intermittent (the worst kind) we can assume it will 
> take the maintainers of Mailman at least a day or two to produce a fix. 
> Even if the powers that be at contesting.com decide to simply revert 
> Mailman to an earlier version, that decision-making process more than 
> likely won't even be able to begin much before Monday.
>
> Mailman has served us well for many many years, so give the appropriate 
> people the time they need to bring it back to health.  Let's go work some 
> DX!
>
> --
> Dick Flanagan K7VC
> dick at k7vc.com
>
> On 2014-04-19 12:47 AM, RTTY wrote:
>> Over the years my experience is that staying away from anything with
>> "yahoo" in the URL keeps my spam count down. This may just be my own 
>> luck,
>> but it has kept me away for the last 5-10 years since my last ISP change 
>> so
>> I am going to hold with that policy. If a group is on yahoo, I am not on
>> it.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 4:10 PM, RTTY <rtty at contesting.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The SteppIR list has been at Yahoo for years and years and works just
>>> fine.  I am one of the moderators.
>>>
>>> I don't think moving the list should be at the top of the list so to 
>>> speak
>>> but this option wit RTTY as the from is gong to run off a bunch of 
>>> people
>>>
>>> Mike W0MU
>>>
>>> On 4/18/2014 3:04 PM, RTTY wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bill the fastest way to kill a group is to move it. My 2 cents, Google
>>>> groups
>>>> suck and Yahoo groups are still being messed with by management
>>>> "improvements"......wunderkind CEO.
>>>>
>>>> Ron
>>>> K0IDT
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "RTTY" <rtty at contesting.com>
>>>> To: <rtty at contesting.com>
>>>> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 12:43 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [RTTY] From: RTTY
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   ORIGINAL MESSAGE:          (may be snipped)
>>>>> On 4/18/2014 10:15 AM, W4TV wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems strange that those providers causing the most problems have
>>>>>> interests in large advertising supported web based discussion groups
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 73,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     ... Joe, W4TV
>>>>>>
>>>>> REPLY:
>>>>>
>>>>> Joe may have hit on the real reason for this. For example, Yahoo 
>>>>> Groups
>>>>> does not have this problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> One possibility is to move this group to Yahoo or Google, but of 
>>>>> course
>>>>> that means giving in. Comments?
>>>>>
>>>>> 73, Bill W6WRT
>>>>>
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