[A6] README: Recent list problems

[Soarer A6]

This whole A6 archive should be made into a forum IMHO. Then a thing like
this could not happen (I guess). Lots of valuable info here that deserves a
forum -if I may say so...

Soarer

On 2/24/07, Paul Evenblij <radioflux at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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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