[racket-dev] Switching to Google Groups

From: Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado (iam at juanfra.info)
Date: Sat Jan 31 14:44:22 EST 2015

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On 01/29/2015 01:47 AM, John Clements wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> PLT would like to get out of the mailing-list administration game.
>
> Accordingly, we’re planning to switch to Google Groups. Rather than
> starting with our largest list, the Racket Users list, we’ve chosen to
> begin with the dev list, because … well, you’re probably more tolerant,
> if^H^H when something goes wrong.
>
> We would like the transition to be as smooth as possible, and we can use
> your help with this.  Specifically, Google has a daily cap on the number of
> e-mail addresses that can be bulk-added to a mailing list. For this reason,
> it would speed the transition greatly if you could take a moment to sign up
> for the new group yourself, using this URL:
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/racket-dev
>
> We plan to disable signup for the old group now, and to halt delivery of
> mail to the existing group address tomorrow. You can post to the new group
> (after signing up) by sending mail to
>
> racket-dev at googlegroups.com
>
> We plan to manually add or invite the members who do not add themselves,
> but the daily cap will mean that these users are likely to miss one or more
> days of postings to this list. Naturally, those posts will be archived, as
> part of the group.
>
> The archive of the existing list will continue to exist, though new
> messages will not be added to it.
>
> Let us know if you run into problems!
>
> Many thanks,
>
> John Clements & PLT
>
>
>
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