This sure sounds like something I recommended to you many years ago. I manage several Mailman systems, and they are very good. I'm sure our IT staff will protect the archives with passwords. I didn't realize that at first, and discovered it only after seeing reflector content on public spaces. Fortunately there was no serious damage done. Bob Vallio, W6RGG On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ <dsumner@arrl.org>wrote:
Board members who have been around a while are all too familiar with the shortcomings of the Lyris listserv system that we have been using to manage email mailing lists such as arrl-odv. For a long time, replacing the system has been on our IT to-do list. It is in the 2011 operational plan, with a medium priority.
External factors sometimes cause a change in priorities, and this is such a case. A needed change in network configuration at our ISP would have required acquiring a new license from Lyris. It made no sense to incur this cost for a system we were planning to abandon anyway, so the IT Department moved the system replacement up the priority list. The cutover to the new system, called Mailman, is scheduled to occur in the wee hours of tomorrow (Friday) morning.
The change should be largely transparent to users, although there will be new features: a Web-based archive that is a great improvement over the Lyris archive, and the ability to manage your own forwarding (i.e., to turn off forwarding while you’re on vacation).
73,
Dave K1ZZ