Dear Mailinglist-Owners and Mailinglist-Subscribers,
the mail server at ibr.cs.tu-bs.de has been moved to a new machine, upgraded
to a new MTA release and configuration and its former mailinglist manager
Majordomo has been replaced by the Mailman software. The latter modification
will cause a few changes that will affect you as well either as a mailinglist
user or especially as a mailinglist admin (owner), although all subscriber
lists and all major settings have been converted and are already used with
the new software.
The general mailinglist manager address <majordomo(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> is no
longer active. Instead, all control messages have to be sent to addresses of
the form <xxx-request(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>. Please send a message containing the
word `help' to the appropriate address of the list that you are subscribed
to, if you want to learn about the commands supported by Mailman.
A new and very powerful feature is the Web interface of Mailman. It allows
you to configure all of your subscription parameters, and it allows list
admins to fine-tune a whole lot of parameters. If you are an admin of one or
more of the lists served at ibr.cs.tu-bs.de, I beg you to take some time and
check & edit your lists' setups via the administrative interface. Some of
the configuration semantics might have changed slightly and need adjustment,
e.g. in case of posting restrictions.
If you have further questions that cannot easily be answered by the online
documentation or if you have lost your list administration password,
please contact <mailman-owner(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>. Subscriber passwords can
be requested to be sent by email via the Web interface.
You will find the Mailman Web interface (along with further documentation) at
https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/mailman, or
http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/mailman
Have fun,
-frank
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Frank Strauss strauss(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Technical University Braunschweig http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/~strauss/
Institute of Operating Systems & Computer Networks Phone: +49 531 391-3266
Muehlenpfordtstrasse 23, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany Fax: +49 531 391-5936
