[PROJ] Potential migration of the mailing list

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Kristian, I made those changes to the current list.  -jeff



On 2018-11-18 5:24 AM, Kristian Evers wrote:
> Hi Even,
> 
> Thanks for taking care of this. I am happy to hear that it should be possible to migrate all the users to the OSGeo list.
> 
> Now that reconfiguration is at play anyway, it would be nice to change both the name ("PROJ.4 and general Projections Discussion" of the list as well as the mail subject prefix ("[Proj]"). At least I think we should align the names so that in both places it says PROJ instead of PROJ.4/Proj. It would also be nice to broaden the subject to more than just "general Projection Discussions", perhaps "general geodesy discussion"? Suggestions for better names are very welcome here :-)
> 
> /Kristian
> 
> 
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: proj-bounces at lists.maptools.org <proj-bounces at lists.maptools.org> På vegne af Even Rouault
> Sendt: 16. november 2018 22:56
> Til: proj at lists.maptools.org; tiff at lists.maptools.org; geotiff at lists.maptools.org; shapelib at lists.maptools.org
> Emne: [Proj] Potential migration of the mailing list
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We have had issues those last days with the maptools.org server hosting this
> mailing list being blocked from sending emails, due to spam transiting through
> it. This has been unblocked for now, but it might happen again.
> 
> We have requested migration of this mailing list on the lists.osgeo.org
> infrastructure which has more knowledgeable people already handling a very
> large number of lists.
> 
> The ticket tracking this is:
> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2218
> 
> We'll try to migrate as much as possible, including the existing subscriber
> list, but in case this would not be possible, you might have to subscribe
> manually to the new list. We'll try to inform you of what happens on this
> channel, but if communication here doesn't seem functional anymore, please
> refer to the above link where instructions we'll be given.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Even
>