From: bwarsaw at cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 17:06:44 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Changes to this list
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Folks,

Breaking Warsaw's Second Law of Hackputing[*], I am making the
following changes to python-list at python.org.  This message will only
be seen by you poor saps^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hlucky souls who are
subscribed via email; it is not going out to Usenet (I hope ;-).

First, I'm pointing the news host for the list to an internal NNTP
machine instead of the Alternet feed.  This is partially to test our
internal server and also because our NNTP machine has a /much/ longer
expiry for c.l.py and c.l.py.a so it'll be easier for me to use for
debugging.  I plan to run the real list off of our internal server
when this thing goes live.

Second, I've installed what will be Mailman 1.0b11.  I believe this
fixes the Usenet archiving bug that Wesley reported.  On the downside, 
it's too hard to fix the old archives, so I've essentially just blown
them away.  Once I turn gating back on, the new archives should be
much better.

I'd like to let this run for about a week, and then start coordinating 
with Sjoerd on migration issues.

Enjoy,

-Barry

[*] WSLH: "Never change anything after 3pm on Friday."  In totally
flaunting this law, I'm am right now heading out for at least 12
hours.  I'm going to turn the gateway back on after this message goes
out, but I'll show Guido how to shut it off, just in case ;-)




