On Fri, 6 Sep 1996 00:00:48 -0400 Automatic digest processor said: >Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 15:13:45 +0200 >From: Feher Ede <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: How migrate LISTSERV from VM to Windows NT?[via LSMTP - see > www.lsoft.com] > >My questions are: >1. Has anybody experience with this situation? (and share with me! ;-) > or knows a good memo for this. Yup... I did this last May. Unfortunately, while I was on vacation in July, someone came in to my work area and my notes (along with a number of other things were apparently filed in places still unknown). But I know a couple things that will help, and if you have a consistent header pattern (which fortunately we did for the most part), you can write up a number of little REXXs to help with the migration. They don't have to be pretty. Mine sure weren't... but they worked. One important note. *Before* you do anything with LISTSERV on the NT machine, disable 8dot3 FileName Creation. It will drag NT to the pace of a dead snail otherwise. >2. How can I do this migration without the mailing list service is = >paused? > (Peer lists for a short time?)=20 IMO, that will be more trouble than it's worth. Bite the bullet and tell people that it won't be available. I did our migration over a long weekend here. (And, no, I didn't get comp time for it... but it saved me from doing the migration with the usual daily interruptions I get in my work, and also over a period of time where most of the work-related lists wouldn't be necessary.) LISTSERV was down for perhaps 5-6 hours at one point, but in little fits and starts at other times. >Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 16:39:42 GMT >From: Bob Jackiewicz <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: ListServ owners > >Is there a way for me to query ListServ and have it tell me which lists are >owned by a specific person? Someone wants to know all of the lists which >they own, and I can't figure out a way to do that, short of sending e-mail >to all of the lists -request addresses and seeing which ones they get. What operating system? I have a VM exec that can pull off the owners for each list... (which was useful in the migration, which is why I stuck them together in this message). One of the things I did before migrating was a full clean-up of "dead wood". I made every owner confirm that they wanted to keep their list. We dropped about 1/4 of the lists we had during the clean-up (which means that my migration took less time). (And we're getting back to where we were pre-cleanup, but I'm making the cleanup an annual event now. It hadn't been done in the previous 10 years.) I'll trade you the owner's exec for cleaning up ROO's MX records. *grin* -Holly