The new home for OpenDTV is now up and running at FreeLists.org. PLEASE READ THIS MESSAGE AND SAVE IT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE !!!!! The new home for the OpenDTV list is particularly well suited to our needs. Here is a brief overview from their website: Welcome to FreeLists, a service providing free, commercial-grade Internet mailing lists to all interested. Our lists are all internet and technology-related. Thus, we provide a free focal point for technology-inclined individuals and groups on the Internet. We do it all without the support of advertisements, ensuring the highest-quality mailing list experience for you and your users. What's that Free thing all about? (Our philosophy) FreeLists is a completely Free service. We're not talking just about price here. See, there's a philosophy behind FreeLists: Knowledge and Information are free, and should stay that way. Our service is about maintaining that objective. FreeLists runs a completely free service on completely Free software. The Linux operating system, the Apache webserver, and the Ecartis mailing manager are responsible for bringing FreeLists to you daily. Mhonarc and ht://dig work in conjunction to bring you the web-based archives. All of this software is Free software and we italicize that word over and over again to emphasize its importance. See the Free Software Foundation's website for more information. There are many parallels between the service we have been using at Topica.com and a few major differences: FreeLists provides web based subscriber management tools and access to the list archives - effective with this message going forward. FreeLists DOES NOT provide a web interface for posting messages to the list. You can receive individual messages, a daily digest, or individual messages AND a daily digest. ============= VERY IMPORTANT: ============= It was not possible to transfer the status of your subscription from Topica.com. You are currently subscribed in the individual message mode. If you want to receive daily digests rather than individual messages you will need to login to the FreeLists web site and change the settings for your subscription. In order to manage your subscription and access the list archives you must register with FreeLists at: //www.freelists.org/index.html From the home page select "FreeLists Login" in the "For Members and Subscribers" box on the left side of the page. Use the "FreeLists Web Login" box. Enter the e-mail address that you have used to subscribe to the list, leaving the password empty, then select "login." FreeLists will immediately send a temporary password to your e-mail account which you must use for authorization on the next page (the page will load automatically). After you receive the authorization e-mail, paste the temporary password into the authorization screen then select "Authorize." The next page will allow you to enter and confirm the password you will use when you login in to manage your account using the web-based interface, or to view the list archives. Like Topica, the management tools allow you to set a "Vacation" flag, which will temporarily suspend the mailing of messages from the list. After your vacation you must reset the flag to start receiving messages. If you bounce too many messages FreeLists will place your account in Vacation mode. The FreeLists website does carry some ads, which makes it possible to offer list hosting services to communities such as OpenDTV without charge. NO ads will be inserted in list messages! To post messages they must be sent to: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx If you have set up an address in your address book to send messages to the list, PLEASE update the address NOW! I will leave the list active at Topica for a few days during the transition to FreeLists.org. Once the list is deactivated at Topica.com we will lose the list archives that are available there. -------------------------------------------- Growing the OpenDTV Community Participation in the OpenDTV list is open to anyone with an interest in topics discussed on the list. Please feel free to forward messages from the list to your colleagues, and encourage them to join our community. Your colleagues can subscribe to the list and register with FreeLists at: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list.fcgi?list_id=opendtv Or they can join the list via email without registering simply by sending an email to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx In the body of the message they must enter: subscribe FreeLists will automatically send them a confirmation message. Once they reply, they'll be added to the list. -------------------------------------------- Managing Your OpenDTV List Subscription As a registered FreeLists user you can utilize the web-based list management services to make changes to your subscription status with the click of a button. Login at the FreeLists site then select the opendtv list. Select "Change Settings" to update the settings for your subscription: - You can enter your real name in this screen. - You can choose two different digest options: "Digest" allows you to receive only a digest each day; "Digest2" allows you to recieve individual posts AND a dail digest. Vacation allows you to temporarily suspend receiving messages without having to unsubscribe. You must reset this flag to start receiving messages again. From the main menu you can select "Unsubscribe" to remove your address from the OpenDTV list. -------------------------------------------- Please let me know if you are experiencing any problems with our new list serve. There are MANY options available to me as list administrator; we can fine tune things as we get used to the new service. At the moment it is not possible to send attachments to the list. I will be in contact with FreeLists to see if we can turn on attachments for the list. Onward and upward! Regards Craig