> perhaps an archive of them somewhere else Github repo? On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM Martha McConaghy < [email protected]> wrote:
> I had not planned on addressing this right now as I have a lot of work > going on. But since the issue has been raised, I'll provide more details. > > I've been in the process of migrating all of Marist's LISTSERV lists over > to a Linux on X based LISTSERV for the last year. Marist runs over 8000 > lists just for internal communication. The last lists to move are the > public lists, like this one. In many ways, these are the trickiest to move > since there are so many people involved. I don't have a date for this list > to move, other work keeps getting in the way. > > The benefits are that we will be on a up to date version of LISTSERV and > on a supported platform. Marist will continue to run LISTSERV for the > foreseeable future given our dependence on it for the school's culture. > > The negative, at least for public lists like this, is that the web > interface to the logs will no longer be available. LISTSERV has a native > web interface, but it requires a login account and we are not making that > interface publicly accessible. The logs and previous postings will be > available via the LISTSERV email interface, which works as it has always > done. There is also a challenge of converting the old logs to work with > the new LISTSERV on Linux. They aren't compatible formats. > > I turned off the current web search of logs because of the continuous bots > going through all the logs from all the lists. I also wanted to see if > anyone actually used or cared about being able to get to them. So far, I > have heard just one complaint. I can turn it back on for now. > > To address Barton's question. I am not asking for, nor seeking to get rid > of this list from Marist. It is true that Marist's commitment to the Z > platform has changed (it is a very complex situation). However, my > commitment has not. However, I also cannot control what others do and if > Barton, or anyone else, wants to start up another list, they are free to do > so. > > The question about the logs is interesting, however. Rather than trying > to convert years worth of old logs to be compatible with the new LISTSERV, > perhaps an archive of them somewhere else would be a good idea? For this > list, there are over 300 logs, going back to 1998 (they are by month). If > that is of interest, contact me directly and we can discuss it. > > Martha > > > Martha McConaghy '84 > > System Architect/Technical Lead > > TDX Platform Architect > > Marist University IT > > Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -- -Mike MacIsaac ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
