OT: How to open a new list at UA.EDU?

Peter Hunkeler

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May 27, 2013, 2:04:36 PM5/27/13

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Does anyone know how to create a new list here at UA.EDU's listserver?

I'm searching a place to host an AFP (Advanced Function Presentation) related list.
There was one on Topia but it seems to be dead.

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Elardus Engelbrecht

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May 28, 2013, 6:32:57 AM5/28/13

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Peter Hunkeler wrote:

>Does anyone know how to create a new list here at UA.EDU's listserver?

There was a link on my (outdated) bookmarks, I have looked at ua.edu, but that link is dead. I'll have to search that university web-pages...

>I'm searching a place to host an AFP (Advanced Function Presentation) related list. There was one on Topia but it seems to be dead.

Look and smell at http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html

This link is one of the starting points about LSoft and maintenance of discussion lists. This is what I used to help out Wilie Bunter and Esmie Moo earlier.

No, I don't know what specifically you need to do at UA.EDU, perhaps others can chime in.

There is also Google Groups, but ... I will stay from it if I can... ;-)

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

Mark Regan

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May 28, 2013, 6:40:58 AM5/28/13

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And there is also Yahoo Groups. IBM participates in the NetView and System Automation groups that are hosted on Yahoo Groups.

Thanks,

Mark Regan

Shane Ginnane

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May 28, 2013, 7:35:42 AM5/28/13

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On Tue, 28 May 2013 05:32:49 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:

>There is also Google Groups, but ... I will stay from it if I can... ;-)

I will second that.
Just recently I have been getting some reasonably sophisticated spam seemingly using my address scraped from the z1090 yahoo group. Looking at the source I see a thread from z1090 with several well known contributors addresses linked in open text.
Bloody appalling management.

But this has been thrashed here before ...

Shane ...

Roger Bolan

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May 28, 2013, 7:57:39 PM5/28/13

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Peter,
I assume you meant the afp-l discussion list at
http://lists.topica.com/lists/afp-l/ ?
I am still able to login so it doesn't seem really "dead". On the other
hand, I don't see any new posts since October of 2012. Maybe it just
needs some prodding?
--Roger

Ed Finnell

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May 28, 2013, 10:47:56 PM5/28/13

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Thanks for posting. That's the real AFP list. Glad you guys subscribe to
both.
For some reason some version of Tropica started having serious problems. I
unsubscribed and never went back.

In a message dated 5/28/2013 6:57:52 P.M. Central Daylight Time,

roger...@GMAIL.COM writes:

hand, I don't see any new posts since October of 2012. Maybe it just
needs some prodding?

Hunkeler Peter , TLSG 4

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May 29, 2013, 2:17:06 AM5/29/13

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Topica never ever worked as smooth as lists like this one work.
Roger, you are right that on can still log-in to Topica, but have you
tried to post a message? It's just being swallowed. And the list owner
doesn't respond.

I'm currently trying to find a listserver based place to host an AFP
list. Will keep this list updated, as some AFP interested people seem to
be subscribed here too (glad to see :-).

Q: Is there any reason the new list should *not* be named "AFP-L"? (The
one on Topica is named AFP-L but after all it is on a different server.)

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Peter Hunkeler