[A6] README: Recent list problems

[Paul Evenblij]

This was sent by our good list maintainer a while
back. It may explain why some people appear to have
been unsubscribed. If so, then the subscription logs
may not be complete... :(


--- William Yardley <a6 at veggiechinese.net> wrote:
> I got an email from Georg Müller, indicating that
> the list wasn't
> working. To be honest, I hadn't noticed at all that
> it was broken.
> 
> There's some good news and some bad news in all of
> this; the bad news is
> that (despite having some simple backups), the list
> configuration and
> member list were destroyed and unrecoverable. The
> good news is that I
> was (I think) able to reconstruct the list from the
> subscription logs.
> Anyone who subscribed and didn't later unsubscribe
> or get unsubscribed
> for having a bouncing addres should now be
> subscribed.
> 
> I went ahead and sent out the welcome messages with
> everyone's
> subscription; however, I hadn't yet reset the list's
> hostname properly
> in the Mailman configuration. Please still continue
> to send to
> "a6 at code404.com".
> 
> Anyone who subscribed to the digest, but later
> changed to receiving the
> non-digest version of the list has probably been
> switched back to the
> digest version.
> 
> Also, passwords, your "real name", and other
> user-specific settings have
> been reset to the defaults.
> 
> Please let me know if you see any problems, or if
> you've been subscribed
> when you shouldn't be, and I'll look into it
> further. There may be some
> minor configuration tweaks and such that still need
> to be done.
> 
> Regards,
> William Yardley
> 
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