Ask the ASU IT if they have backups of the server. If they do then they could follow the help files for LSOFT and restore the list. It sounds like the site was in heavy use with many lists but didn’t have a good system to manage them? I would think ASU would host them until you had an alternative in place? A year to transition a list like that is not unreasonable.

 

I looked it up on google. Here is their site https://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?INDEX  They have a lot of lists.  I don’t think it is an issue for them to restore the list for you temporarily. That would be a standard business practice I would think. I don’t easily see contact information for them though.

 

You might try emailing [log in to unmask] to see if it is a monitored email inbox.

 

Here is an ASU page with phone and a contact link.  https://communityengagement.education.asu.edu/usl-listservs

 

From: LISTSERV List Owners' Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]LSOFT.COM] On Behalf Of toller67
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 10:32 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: HISTARCH list has vanished completely

 

I don't understand something. Most any IT Dept will have an archived version of the files. Are you sure they don't? Once that is solved, then you can find a new home.  A generation of historical information is tough to lose just so casually.

 

Eric Johnson

 

 

 

Sent from my Galaxy Tab® E

 

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From: Ashley Dowling <[log in to unmask]>

Date: 2/17/17 11:28 AM (GMT-06:00)

To: [log in to unmask]

Subject: Re: HISTARCH list has vanished completely

 

Jumping in to share my experience. We explored the possibility of using Google Groups when we unexpectedly lost access to our listserv via an academia host as well. However, it didn't fit our needs and we needed a solution that was free and up and running in 72 hours. I had quickly looked at it but saw It had feature limitations such as number of subscribers and emails sent and would require us to migrate domain services for email hosting. This was a year ago when I explored this possibility; it does seem they expanded their import/emails capacities but not sure about costs associated with it. https://support.google.com/a/answer/6099642?hl=en

Our solution was to migrate to MailChimp's free services and sending out emails weekly in a digest/newsletter format and have been doing this for free (albeit a bit more time on my end for content editing). Not the most ideal solution but our readers enjoyed the facelift and it's working for us for the last 12 or so months.

-Ashley

 

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