<div dir="ltr">Dear all, PLT would like to get out of the mailing-list administration game. We’re therefore proposing to move the Racket Users mailing list to Google Groups. In fact, we’ve already begun the process of moving our mailing lists; the developers mailing list, racket-dev, has already moved to Google Groups, without major incident[*]. In particular, it’s still possible to send mail to the developers mailing list using the address <a href="mailto:dev@racket-lang.org">dev@racket-lang.org</a>, and we’re planning to continue to use the <a href="mailto:users@racket-lang.org">users@racket-lang.org</a> e-mail address for the new users group. I’m proposing that we make this move for the Users mailing list some time in mid-to-late March. Google has a cap on the number of e-mail addresses that can be invited to a mailing list, and an even tighter cap on the number of e-mail addresses that can be directly added. For this reason, we’re going to ask you to sign *yourself* up for the new group, when we move. After a brief interval, we’ll begin inviting all of the e-mail addresses that don’t yet appear on the new mailing list. There are currently 1532 members on the users list, though, so this is going to take a while. One potential hiccup: there is an existing Users google group, and we’re hoping to re-purpose this as the main group rather than as an archive. This list has a google setting—"list is an archive”, if I recall correctly—that is now deprecated. It seems possible that making changes to the way this list is configured could have unexpected consequences, and makes it impossible to test various transition scenarios. The local mailman archive of the existing list will continue to exist, though new messages will not be added to it. The remote archives at gmane and mail-archive and marc should be able to handle the transition, and hopefully will not drop too many messages during the transition. Let us know how this sounds to you! John Clements [*] We’re still waiting to hear from gmane and <a href="http://marc.info">marc.info</a> about archive updates; mail-archive has successfully made the jump already. </div>