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Message no. 1
From: Tony Glinka porthos@*******.com
Subject: SRCard Move (Was Re: Ques.)
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:28:34 -0700
Wildfire wrote:
>
> Just a random question. Why did we move?
>

I think there were a number of reasons for moving the mailing list (as
well the other Shadowrun lists). Here are a couple of them, listed in
no particular order. Adam and/or Mark may be able to answer this with
more authority.

SRCard and the other Shadowrun related list such as ShadowRN were hosted
on a server owned/run by Itribe. The person who worked at Itribe (I
believe this was Mark, but I can't guarantee this) no longer works
there. So it was felt that a new home for the lists needed to be
found. It was a little "tacky" to be using a someone else's server for
something they didn't need/want.

The listserve software that was used to host the different mailing lists
was limited to 500 subscriptions. This number was not sufficient for
all the lists and this was causing a major headache for the people in
charge of maintaining the listserve software (i.e. Mark). So a new home
with better software was needed.

Hence the move.

Tony
--
Porthos@*******.com -- GridSec: SRCard
Porthos' World of Shadowrun: http://www.inficad.com/~porthos/sr/
Tony's SRTCG Site: http://www.inficad.com/~porthos/srtcg/
Home of the SRTCG Q&A: SRCard's Official Unofficial SRTCG FAQ
Message no. 2
From: Tony Glinka porthos@*******.com
Subject: SRCard Move (Was Re: Ques.)
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:28:34 -0700
Wildfire wrote:
>
> Just a random question. Why did we move?
>

I think there were a number of reasons for moving the mailing list (as
well the other Shadowrun lists). Here are a couple of them, listed in
no particular order. Adam and/or Mark may be able to answer this with
more authority.

SRCard and the other Shadowrun related list such as ShadowRN were hosted
on a server owned/run by Itribe. The person who worked at Itribe (I
believe this was Mark, but I can't guarantee this) no longer works
there. So it was felt that a new home for the lists needed to be
found. It was a little "tacky" to be using a someone else's server for
something they didn't need/want.

The listserve software that was used to host the different mailing lists
was limited to 500 subscriptions. This number was not sufficient for
all the lists and this was causing a major headache for the people in
charge of maintaining the listserve software (i.e. Mark). So a new home
with better software was needed.

Hence the move.

Tony
--
Porthos@*******.com -- GridSec: SRCard
Porthos' World of Shadowrun: http://www.inficad.com/~porthos/sr/
Tony's SRTCG Site: http://www.inficad.com/~porthos/srtcg/
Home of the SRTCG Q&A: SRCard's Official Unofficial SRTCG FAQ

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