[OSList] Change of email address not possible in the system!

[Harold Shinsato]

Dear OSList Membership,

And we interrupt your usual broadcast with a message from your sponsors...

As you may or may not be aware, we have a purely volunteer group that 
manages the OSList. And in the spirit of Open Space, the list needs to 
be mostly self-organized. When there are problems, it is mostly me. 
Michael Herman has also graciously offered his technical support. Any 
other volunteers would be most gratefully welcomed!

The Open Space Institute of the U.S. sponsors the hosting of the OSList. 
Since we are an U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, we are given free 
hosting from the generous people at DreamHost. And they provide this 
through the Open Source software system called GNU MailMan. The software 
is not under my control, so I can not just do updates or make changes. 
Which in many ways is a good thing, otherwise it would likely take so 
much time we would not be able to manage it.

There appears to be a user interface if you log into our MailMan service 
on the web to change email address. And it doesn't appear to work, at 
least for one person. I don't have the ability to override this with the 
administrative interface. It looks like it just does the same thing if 
you do it yourself.

BUT THERE IS GOOD NEWS. There's not a whole lot of benefit of 
maintaining your "account". Just subscribe your new address and 
unsubscribe the old one. That does work.

And now back to your regular program.

     Regards,
     Harold

On 7/21/19 7:19 AM, Harold Shinsato wrote:
> Hi Judith,
>
> My apologies for the bug you are encountering. I will look into that 
> later today and see if I can change the email. I may not be able to 
> get past the bug. But we can just subscribe your new email and remove 
> the old one.
>
> Harold
>


-- 
Harold Shinsato
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