The new Rootsweb mailing list system (Mailman) has gone into effect beginning
today and continuing for the next couple of weeks, staggered alphabetically
according to the following schedule:
Thursday, August 17 - Lists A-C
Monday, August 21 - Lists D-F
Tuesday, August 22 - Lists G-I
Wednesday, August 23 - Lists J-L
Thursday, August 24 - Lists M-O
Monday, August 28 - Lists P-R
Tuesday, August 29 - Lists S-U
Wednesday, August 30 - Lists V-Z
You may check this link for any changes to the timetable:
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/migrate_sched.html
While the "migration" of the lists to a new server should process uneventfully
for listmembers, there are a few points that need to be covered:
1. AOL users (and possibly some other ISPs), please check your spam folders,
and, if you find list mail held as spam, you will need to be sure to click the
*THIS IS NOT SPAM* link to send the list mail to your current mailbox. This
will "train" the system to understand that mail from this new server is not
spam.
2. If you are subscribed to both L & D mail modes of this list, the new
system is not set up to send both to the same email address. If you want to
be subscribed in both modes (many subscribe to both -- regular mail mode to
read and delete and digest to file and save), it will be necessary to use
another email address for your digest mail. It is my understanding that if
you are subscribed to the list in both mail modes with the same address, you
will be dropped from the digest list roster, so if this happens to you, please
resubscribe with another address (Yahoo might be a good choice for an
alternate email address). This will not effect those who subscribe in either
of the mail modes exclusively.
3. If you want to post from more then one account, just send me the addresses
of the extra accounts and I will add them to the Accept List. This means you
can *post* from any of those accounts, while *receiving* the listmail from the
one you originally used to subscribe. This feature is handy if you want to
post from work but would prefer not to receive Rootsweb mail at your place of
business.
4. The list's email address is changing from CATLETT-L(a)rootsweb.com to
CATLETT(a)rootsweb.com. Both addresses will apprently work. SUBSCRIBE and
UNSUBSCRIBE messages *must* contain the word "subscribe" or
"unsubcribe" in
the SUBJECT of the message (vice message body, as in the past).
5. In the event you receive an unsubscribe notice and believe it to be in
error, please contact me privately at CATLETT-admin(a)rootsweb.com and I'll
correct the problem.
6. Digest subscribers may notice some changes to the list digests. New
instructions will be added to the digests -- please read them. In addition,
the digest volume and issue number may be different (out of sequence) from
what you had been receiving. If your digests arrive in a different format
than you are used to and you would like it changed, contact me privately at
the list admin address: CATLETT-admin(a)rootsweb.com.
7. If you use email headers to filter list mail to special folders (as I do),
you will probably need to tweak your filters once the new system begins.
8. If you run into any unusual or confusing occurrences with mail from this
list that could possibly be related to the changeover, let me know.
-- Karon Bosze
List Administrator for the CATLETT mailing list at
RootsWeb.com.