I need help guys: we are almost done with the lyx-users list transfer,
but I just do not understand what Martin wants to do. Perhaps I am
missing something obvious.
I suggested the following schedule to Martin:
1) Announce on the users list that the list will be out of service for
a short period of time.
2) Send the subscribers' list to me, so I can subscribe all to the new
list.
3) After Martin receives my message that I completed the subscription,
he can set up the aliases that forward mail sent the old addresses to
the new list address.
Martin says: freezing service is not necessary. Yesterday, he sends
me the subscriber's list, and then says
> No I will send you an update after you established you side. Simply make a
> diff on todays list and the list after the update. All request will be
> forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Me:
> If you do not freeze subscription, how are you going to make sure, no
> message will be lost?
Martin:
> Well it is rather simple. I sent you already the most current list. After
> your list is functional and I enabled the aliases I will send you the new
> list. Any subscribes/unsubscribes will be visible in the diff.
Me:
> Imagine this: joe subscribed to the old users' list *after* you sent
> me yesterday the subscribers' list (so he is *not* subscribed to
> the new list), and somebody sends a post to the list *before* I
> could subscribe joe to the new list. How will joe get the message
> (which could be a reply to an earlier post of joe's)?
>
> Similarly, if joe unsubscribed, he will continue receiving message
> from the list till I unsubscribe him.
What the heck am I missing here? What is the logic of me getting the
subscribers' list twice?
Thx,
Mate
