On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:14:40PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:56:14AM -0700, Zack Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:30:16AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> >
> > > In short its a situation without a _perfect_ solution. Either way
> > > it's approached, someone is going to complain.
> >
> > You make it sound like all solutions are equally good/bad. It's not
> > so. Mass subscritpions have serious problems, as we're seeing. The
> > net-cop approach is more respectful and less inconvenient for most
> > people. It's not like these things haven't been tried in the past.
>
> I've personally migrated a list of ~300 subscribers to a new server with
> little problem. In fact I don't recall any outcry from the members
> regarding the move. There were growing pains as with any transition.
> Some of them were used to an old header that the new list did not have.
> I promptly added it for their convenience.
>
> Another project's list that I've been subscribed to has transitioned
> through at least 3 different list servers while I've been following it
> and each transition has been a mass subscription move.
In the part of my post that you didn't quote, I said migrating to a new
server is a different case. We're not talking about migrating servers,
we're talking about creating new lists.
Be well,
Zack
>
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