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Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:38 PM
To: Aroid list
Subject: [aroid-l] Welcome to the new Aroid-L
Aroiders,
By now you will have all realized that Aroid-L was down for quite some
time (over a week) and that it is now back up, and that some things are
different.
Since the beginning, we have run on a server at the Missouri Botanic
Garden in St. Louis. MoBot was kind enough to let us do this for about 10
years, and we are most grateful for that decade of support. We know that
supporting a listserver like ours is not the real mission of their
Information Systems people.
Recently, the server at MoBot which supported Aroid-L had to be taken out
of service for a rather lengthy upgrade, and we were asked if we could
find an alternative site to host Aroid-L for a few days.
Alan Galloway and his staff at NCSU have stepped up and offered us a home
there, and not just for the length of the outage at MoBot. They support a
large set of mail servers and a number of mailing lists and are ideally
equipped for this task, and so we've said yes. (We've also twisted Alan's
arm to become a third Aroid-L listowner.) As you've gathered, he and his
team have been busy moving everyone over.
This was all done very hurriedly (mostly by Alan!) so please bear with us
as the problems are resolved, oversights corrected, etc., over the next
few days.
As I get a chance, I will post several messages which came in for the
"old" Aroid-L and did not go out there.
Steve
-- Steve Marak
-- samarak@arachne.uark.edu
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