[WikiEN-l] Mailing list scheduled downtime and changes

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Fri Jan 5 00:22:14 UTC 2007


On 1/4/07, Mark Ryan <ultrablue at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, WikiEN-l subscribers.
>
> This coming Saturday at 10:00 UTC/GMT, the mailing lists will be
> shifted to a new server. This will cause a downtime for the mailing
> lists (and may also incidentally affect other Wikimedia mail systems).
>
> The mailing lists will also be shifted to a new subdomain, so that the
> WikiEN-l mailing list email address will in fact be either
> "wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org" or "wikien-l at lists.wikipedia.org" (I
> don't know myself yet; probably the former). You will still be able to
> send mail to the mailing list via the current (wikien-l at wikipedia.org)
> email address, but all emails will have fields like "reply-to" reflect
> the new address. This will break most email filters which subscribers
> have in place to tag mailing list emails and sort them, so many of you
> will have to tweak your settings a bit once the change is made.
>
> Sorry for any inconvenience and confusion this might cause.
>
> ~Mark Ryan
> WikiEN-l mailing list admin
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And thank you and the rest of the mailing list coordinators for keeping
things running smoothly.

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