Dear subscribers:
Some of you will get this message multiple times, because you are
subscribed to more than one list that I admin. Sorry!
This evening, Friday, December 8, RootsWeb will be upgrading one of its
mailing list servers. I know that more than one of "my" lists is affected.
When the upgrade is finished, those of us who are on a list on the upgraded
server should not notice any significant change in the behavior of the
list, except possibly that it will be faster in its responses.
During the upgrade, messages sent to an affected list will NOT be lost, but
will be delayed in posting by up to 10 hours. Subscribing and unsubscribing
will also be delayed. Please be aware of this behavior, both on this list
and on other lists that may be affected. When this sort of thing happens,
there is often a flurry of messages from panicky subscribers who don't
understand what's happening, either because the list admin didn't inform
them, or they didn't read the message, or they didn't understand how it
might affect them.
So: PLEASE do not send any messages TO THE LIST asking about problems with
messages not being posted. Send all of those to me, personally, at either
darrellm(a)sprynet.com
or
LISTNAME-admin(a)rootsweb.com (substitute the name of the list for
LISTNAME, no -L or -D)
But until Saturday, December 9, at NOON PACIFIC TIME (3:00 p.m. Eastern
Standard time, about 21:00 GMT, I guesstimate), DON'T SEND ANY "UNPOSTED
MESSAGES" QUESTIONS TO ME EITHER <grin>. After then, before sending that
question to me, please check your mail one more time to see if it may have
cleared itself up. This change should *not* garble any messages, so if you
get a mishmashed message from the list, please tell me about it immediately.
Instead of sitting at the keyboard anxiously awaiting the arrival of the
new list server, why not -- if you can -- get out and look at some
Christmas lights somewhere? Or take your spouse out to dinner? Or play that
old favorite board game with the kids, you know, the one you *think* they
have outgrown? Just a thought. If you are going through list withdrawal, I
can help. Send me a private message to the first address I gave above, and
I'll see if I can help soothe your jangled nerves <grin>.
Darrell
Rootsweb List Admin for VTGEN, VTCALEDO, VTLAMOIL, VTORANGE, VTWINDSO,
FELCH, FORBUSH, LAMSON, LOWER, ROUSSEAU, and RUSSEAU
darrellm(a)sprynet.com