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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]
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>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
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>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
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