On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 07:24:39PM -0600, Christian Grothoff wrote: > Hi there! > > I'm the maintainer of GNU libmicrohttpd. The mailinglist of the project is > (for historical reasons) currently hosted under > libmicroht...@lists.cs.du.edu. > However, for various reasons it would be nice if we could move that list to > the canonical location for GNU projects (listn...@gnu.org). > > Naturally, I would like to migrate subscriptions and the archive. Also, it > has worked quite well so far to have just one list for discussions and > announcements, so I'm not sure that splitting it up into bug-, help- and > info- > makes sense (not to mention we have a web-based bugtracker that I'd really > like people to use...). > > Would it be possible to just have "libmicroht...@gnu.org"? If not, I think > "help-libmicrohttpd" is probably the most appropriate name for the list. > Now, > given that there is the issue of migrating the existing archive (which is > already public at http://lists.cs.du.edu/mailman/listinfo/libmicrohttpd), the > standard approach of requesting a new list does not seem to apply. So, > what's > the best way to do this migration?
The most simple would be: - send us the archives in mbox format - we create the list and import the archives - you manually migrate (mass subcribe) the list of subscribers, and reconfigure the list at gnu.org How does it sound? -- Sylvain
