[Netreach-L] Netreach-L has moved

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

Hi everybody,

I hope you are all doing well. Just a small note to tell you all that the NetReach-L Mailing list has moved.
The list's posting address netreach-l at gih.com is still the same, but a lot of things have changed behind the scenes.

You must have received an automated welcoming note telling you about all the new features of MailMan, the new list software on which Netreach-L is running. You'll see that it has a lot of new features, which makes it better for you and for me.

Netreach-L used to run on Listserv, then on Majordomo, which was fine a few years ago, but this was when the computer it was running on was an 80386 connected to the Internet via dial-up at 9600 baud. Times have changed. Back in those days, most email was just text, while now we send attachments and HTML email, and Majordomo used to cough a lot on this new stuff. I am running other lists on the same machine, and it really started to become a headache.

The computer changed a few times (upgrades, always upgrades), and then got connected to the Internet via ADSL.
Recently, I've upgraded the machine again, with one that has dual Pentium III processors, a RAID array and is running the latest flavour of Linux, CENTOS 5 (aka Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5). 
It's connected to the Internet via an 8M ADSL link, but also tunnelled IPv6, which means accessing your MailMan account preferences can take place both on IPv4 and also on IPv6! Last but not least, it is now possible to consult online archives of the list, a feature which was not previously possible.

Anyway, I hope this will take us another 10 years, until the next upgrade!

Warm regards,

-- 
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
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