[Oslist] Update on moving day(s)

[Harold Shinsato]

Another update - the folks at DreamHost are trying to do the conversion
again right now. They said it might "take hours" so I may not know until the
morning U.S. East Coast time. Apparently DreamHost doesn't let a lot of
their support people do the super user password access type of things that
Mailman requires to do these kind of archive conversions.

Thanks again for all the messages of support and encouragement - and thanks
everyone for your patience. I guess in a way I was asking for it when I
planned the conversion on "April Fools" day. Sorry about that. Luckily the
Mailman software itself seems to be working just fine. It's just the
conversion of the old archives that has been tripping up the DreamHost
support staff.

I'll send out another update in the morning. I may consider letting the
traffic flow again in the morning and giving up on the conversion and
integration of the archives until a later date possibly on another system.

          Thanks!
          Harold

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Harold Shinsato <harold at shinsato.com> wrote:

>  Dear OSList-ers,
>
> My deepest humblest regrets about the delays. Although I'm a competent
> programmer - I don't have direct access to the import process of the old
> archive messages. I had to assemble and convert the old messages from
> ListServ format to Mailman format - but I don't do the final step.
>
> There have been 6 delayed postings to OSList since we started the move.
> Those emails have *not* been lost. I will approve them as soon as the moving
> day(s) process is complete
>
> The 24,000+ emails to the OSList since 1996 are safe and sound. We even
> have multiple copies of them (thanks Peggy!) What is more - I managed to
> install Mailman myself on my laptop and the archives converted just fine to
> the GNU Mailman program.
>
> But - as I said - I don't have direct access. This is something that
> DreamHost has to do for us. Hopefully they will complete the process soon.
> We need to wait until they complete that process before we can go live - or
> your new emails will not get incorporated into the archives.
>
> Thanks so much for all your patience!
>
>     Regards,
>     Harold
>
> --
> Harold Shinsato
> harold at shinsato.com
> http://shinsato.com
> twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush>
>
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