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[Officers] Top priorities for BLU server



Officers, announce, and discuss is up.
I was wondering if it would be better to move the officers over to gapps
permanently.

On 05/31/2011 08:58 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> Yes, those announcements look good. Let's do it that way.
>
> Bill's job lists are good to have, so if you're willing to moderate,
> then yes, let's recreate them.
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I can get announce and discuss up shortly.Since everyone will be
>> resubscribed. I'd like part of the announcement be on the welcome list. In
>> addition, while I have all the subscribers, I don't know who was digest and
>> nomail. Also, I'm not sure of the exact settings, but that is not altogether
>> important.
>>
>> The other thing do you want me to restore Bill Horne's job lists. I can set
>> mysefl up as moderator of that. All it does is forward to discuss.
>> Here is what I envision as the welcome message
>> --------------------------------------------
>> Welcome back to <listname>@blu.org
>> The BLU mail server lost it's primary hard drives on Friday, and we have had
>> to move over to another host. and resubscribe everyone.
>> We are resubscribing everyone as regular members. If you need to set your
>> account up as digest or nomail, please follow the instructions below.
>> --------------------------------------------
>> Note that there are a couple of lists (eg. announce) that do not allow
>> digest members so in this case the last line will be provided on discuss
>> only. I've set up the 2 lists already with no members. Please review the
>> short announcement. I'll wait about 30 minutes before I add the subscribers.
>> Is inbound email working yet.
>>
>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:25 PM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi, Jerry.
>>>
>>> Our top priorities for today should be to get the website live
>>> and to get the discuss and announce lists operational
>>> so we can let our members know what happened and show
>>> that we haven't closed down the group.
>>>
>>> I finished DNS last night, and the website updates as of 7:00 am
>>> when I went to sleep. I was hoping to go live by 3:00 PM, and
>>> I asked everyone to look it over in case I missed anything critical.
>>>
>>> I haven't heard back from anyone yet about it, and it's way past
>>> 3:00 pm. So I'm going to make it live now.
>>>
>>> I'd also like to see an announcement go out this evening to the
>>> announce list, and for the discuss list to be operational. How soon
>>> do you foresee these being operational?
>>>
>>> I appreciate your efforts in getting postfix and Mailman operational.
>>
>>
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>> --
>> Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
>> Boston Linux and Unix
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>>
>
>


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Jerry Feldman <gaf at bostonusergroups.org>
Treasurer, Boston User Groups, Inc.
http://www.bostonusergroups.com/
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