On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:44 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> wrote:

I think that this will be MY LAST POST TO tlug@ss.org.
And it is my first post to talk@gtalug.org.

| From: Ken Heard <kenslists@teksavvy.com>

| I will consequently
| unsubscribe from the old list and subscribe to the new.

I don't know if the "unsubscribe" is necessary or even a good idea.

How are the old and new lists connected?

They are hardly connected, really.

They're managed on separate servers, and there isn't any sort of gatewaying between them, except insofar as one might simultaneously post to both (as you and I have both just done).

I subscribed on Monday evening to the new ones and have not unsubscribed
from the old one. I have not received any double-posts. In fact, all
messages I've seen seem to be from the old list.

I'm sending this message to both old and new lists. Let's see what
happens.

If there is no automatic cross-posting, one should stay subscribed to both
old and new lists.

I agree; there is not any particular value or need to unsubscribe from the old list.

At some point, there will be a final message, hopefully an intentional "This Is The Final Message" one, and the old list will be turned off, no more postings allowed. (Sorta nice if messages "bounce" in some meaningful way as opposed to disappearing into the aether, alas, I don't imagine that would be easy to test, particularly as there's very little maintenance going on in the elder environment.)

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