New list confirmation (Re: cpunks list relocation imminent (was: Re: moving on))

[Stephen D. Williams]

On 9/2/16 12:02 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 08:36:43PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
>>> will work to sync up the archives so that the split brain we've been
>> Don't taint the provenance... just as your archive contains only yours,
>> this file should only contain messages from newby's server:
>> https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks.mbox/cypherpunks.mbox.gz
>>
>> You can host your own archives wherever, and people will pick them up
>> and re-host them wherever.
>>
>> You can blend the html index if you want, because it's just a human
>> interface, not a critical source archive.
>>
>> People...
>> Don't use procmail, it sucks. Maildrop is better.
>> Don't use mbox, it sucks. Maildir is better.

I still use procmail, a bit, but I don't have a strong opinion there.

I always use mbox format.  I find it very scalable, although I do roll over to new files every 200MB.  Dovecot indexes so well that
I'm pretty sure it is faster.  Plus, it is likely much faster for backups etc.

> It's all good. Thanks for the maildrop hint. I'll use Maildir when I'm
> up to speed with notmuch, but not before - Maildirs are too slow
> otherwise for me.
>
> Finally - can the new cpunks admin please add a standard
> subscribe/unsubscribe footer? I referred a friend and they got a
> rejection on subscription request, so I'm thinking they might have tried
> using the old domain. Sent them the new mailman url.

sdw

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