Well said, Jeff! And this method accomplishes the important thing, which is that no one person has control over (both halves of) the list. The only flaw I can see is if too many people make posts to both lists, as you and I have just done. :-) But even so, a few duplicate messages are a minor annoyance, not a disaster. - Erik K ----------------- On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Jeff Shanab <jshanab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Right now I recieve messages from both lists in the same inbox. The > client filters on "[EVTECH]" in the title > I have to look to see which ones it came form. > > Like I said before, leave them both up. Listen to both and send to > whatever one is up. > A poor mans replication. As far as I know there is no archive so syncing > them is completely un-necessary :-) > > Right now if everyone sends to the old list, that is all we will get. > If it goes down, we send to the other list and viola, we all suddenly > get messages from that one. > We just tested this for a week ;-) > > eric@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Roger, >> >> The existence of the list was the very problem that precipitated the >> creation of the new list. It's easy to say in hindsight "the list is >> here [now], and we don't have a reason to abandon it." There was a >> *very* good reason to abandon it: It was gone, and there wasn't any >> indication it would ever return. There's been a loss in confidence >> about the reliability of the EVTECH list as it is. It goes down for >> days at a time; this last outage was a rather long one. In the past, >> a simple note to sheer cleared it up, but this time he dropped off the >> face of the planet. This isn't an indictment of sheer: Shit Happens; >> we can all understand that. Problem is there isn't a "Plan B." >> >> I think the concern over the stability of the list is valid; perhaps >> if there were redundant servers and (especially) administrators these >> concerns might be satisfied. >> >> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Roger Stockton <rstockton@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >> >>> I can only speak for myself, but I've been on EVTECH since Sheer created >>> it, and as long as the EVTECH list exists, this is where I'll be staying. >>> >> Set options or unsubscribe at //www.freelists.org/list/evtech >> Archive at //www.freelists.org/archive/evtech/ >> >> >> > > Set options or unsubscribe at //www.freelists.org/list/evtech > Archive at //www.freelists.org/archive/evtech/ > > -- ---- Erik Kauppi ---- erik@xxxxxxxxx ---- -- Electric Vehicle Manufacturing LLC -- Set options or unsubscribe at //www.freelists.org/list/evtech Archive at //www.freelists.org/archive/evtech/