Informix mailing list moving

The home site of the Informix mailing list will be moving soon. Starting Monday, August 8, 1994, the new home site of informix-list will be vungtau.cerf.net (IP 192.153.156.70), which is located in the Pacific time zone of the U.S.A. The new list manager is Binh Thanh Nguyen, who has graciously agreed to take over administration of the list. There were actually several people who volunteered to run the list, and my thanks to them also. The day-to-day maintenance of informix-list on vungtau will be performed by a list management package called "majordomo", which provides some of the functionality of traditional listserv processors. Majordomo uses a single administrative address for all lists on a system, which in this case is "list-manager@vungtau.cerf.net". If you are currently on the mailing list, I suggest that you retrieve the majordomo help file some time during this week to learn the available functions -- majordomo is not *exactly* like listserv. This will also test your connectivity to the new system. To get the help file, send e-mail to list-manager@vungtau.cerf.net with a message consisting of the word "help". The Subject line will be ignored. If your mailer automatically adds a signature block (.signature), you may need to follow the line containing "help" with one containing the word "end". During this week, Binh and I will be testing list distribution from the new site, which will include testing the list's Usenet gateway. If you notice a problem with any of the test messages, whether you are a Usenet or mailing list site, I'd appreciate your letting Binh or me know. Binh can be reached directly at "nbt@vungtau.cerf.net". IMPORTANT: Please do not attempt to subscribe to informix-list at the new site during this week of testing. The operational home site for the list is still rmy.emory.edu. On Monday, August 8, the list of active addresses will be copied to vungtau.cerf.net, overwriting any that were placed there during testing. If you have any questions regarding the move, or if you have problems reaching vungtau.cerf.net, please let Binh or me know. Thanks, Walt. PS: This change of home site for the mailing list does *not* affect the anonymous FTP archive at mathcs.emory.edu. -- Walt Hultgren Internet: walt@rmy.emory.edu (IP 128.140.8.1) Emory University UUCP: {...,gatech,rutgers,uunet}!emory!rmy!walt 954 Gatewood Road, NE BITNET: walt@EMORY Atlanta, GA 30329 USA Voice: +1 404 727 0648