Re: Pgfoundry and gborg: shut one down

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:49:30PM +0700, Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:
>> On Mon, February 20, 2006 11:00, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>>>> Speaking for libpqxx, my only concern with that is the mailing list.
>>>> Would those have to move to different addresses--or conversely, would a
>>>> forced migration make it much easier to move *all* GBorg mailing lists
>>>> to
>>>> pgFoundry and maintain their old addresses?
>>>
>>> All addresses would have to be changed to the pgfoundry.org one ...
>>
>> Ouch! Moving my project off GBorg wasn't so hard, but forcing all mailing
>> list subscribers to move to a different address does hurt.
>>
>> If the same goes for many other projects on there, wouldn't it be possible
>> to move all mail handling for gborg.postgresql.org over to pgFoundry at
>> once, but preserve the domain name and list names? It may help people
>> make the jump if mailing list migration could be decoupled from the other
>> changes.
>
> Actually, it should be entirely possible to setup forwarding for
> projects as they migrate, one-by-one. AFAIK mailman will handle
> something like project-blah(at)gbork(dot)org being forwarded to
> project-blah(at)pgfoundry(dot)org(dot)

Woo hoo ... a mailman expert ... let us know how it is done so that we can
do it :)

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