[DIY-Zoning-general] [admin] New home for diy-zoning-general

[Vadim T. <vt...@fr...>]

Hello lurkers,

This list existed for over eight years now (the first message in the
archive that I see is dated July 2002, though I remember it being
active before that).

Conversations were great, and the value they brought to project
development was tremendous. However, over the years gremlins started
to settle in - most notably, though in no particular order:

- inadequate spam control;
- poor article access from the Web (we here may not care, but there's
a lot of folks "just looking";
- poor delivery times;

- The deal breaker, poor archive searchability - search engines are
useless against archives stored at SourceForge. This cannot be
tolerated today, when the search is the most important way for people
to come across new information.

Considering these, I have made a difficult decision to move the
mailing list to Google hosting. The new mailing list home will be at:

http://groups.google.com/group/home-climate-control (Web)
hom...@go... (email delivery)

Note that I have not converted your subscription. I've been
considering performing mass subscriber transition, but decided against
it to respect your opinion. Hence, here's what I'm gonna do:

- I will wait a week (till Monday the 16th of August for those on a
weekly digest), then perform mass subscription for all people already
subscribed to this list - UNLESS YOU CONTACT ME OFFLINE and ask not to
do it;
- I will appreciate, though, if you could subscribe yourself - now is
a good time to change the effective subscription address without
losing anything important;
- I will *not* delete this list, and will not even think of deleting
the archive - though difficult to digest, it's still there;
- I *will* respond to messages to this list, but would strongly
discourage posting to it;
- In fact, a copy of this message will be posted to the new list, so
you can reply to it there, should you want to go through a hassle of
subscribing to the group before the mass transition.

For all practical intents and purposes,
hom...@go... *is* the new
diy...@li..., effective immediately.

Now, can someone tell me how do we best utilize features available at
new hosting, such as files, pages, bells and whistles?

--vt