lists win ... next steps

[Kai Staats]

Members of General, Devel, and Newbies list,

Today has been interesting, to say the least :)

We had made a decision to go with a web-based forum. This was driven by two 
factors: frustration with the admin interface and functionality of mailman, 
and a number of requests by users to switch to a web-based forum.

However, when this decision was announced, the feedback from the active users 
of the current lists was overwhelmingly in favor of the lists.

So, we are going to do 4 things:

	1) Install the latest version of mailman (this may cause list downtime).

	2) Keep the PHP-BB forum on the server but shut-down the current lists (for 
they are duplicates of the existing mail lists) ... it is likely that we will 
launch a new forum which does not duplicate the existing lists ... waiting 
for feedback from our users.

	3) Work on a revised, public interface to mailman (sign-up, info, archives) 
to better maintain a consistent theme with our corporate site and more 
importantly, offer a less confusing path to subscribing, un-subscribing, etc.

	4) Work to further reduce spam that is sent to (and intercepted by) the 
lists.

I sincerely apologize for the confusion and do believe the end result will be 
an overall improvement of the lists.

Sincerely,
kai