[Public-list] warning of service interruption

[George Dinwiddie]

The company that rents space and bandwidth to me for the server that 
hosts this list has decided to exit the low-end of their market.  I've 
done considerable research, and was unable to find local server 
colocation at a comparable price.  I decided, instead, to go back to a 
shared server setup with someone else maintaining the computer.

I've been working on this transition for several months, and I've been 
painfully reminded why I was tempted to maintain my own server.  The 
ISPs notion of customer service is not the same as mine, nor is it 
consistent with the image I had formed from the recommendation I 
received for this ISP.  As a result, it looks extremely doubtful that 
the mailing lists configs (including user subscriptions) will be 
transferred to the new server before I have to decommission the old one 
in the next few days.  If I had access to the new mailserver, I could 
have accomplished this by now.  Instead I have to plead with someone 
else to do it.

As a result, the list will likely cease to function for a some period of 
time.  I'm still hopeful I can get the user subscriptions transferred 
without requiring everyone to re-subscribe.  I'll post a message when I 
have some news.

  - George

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