SEELANGS Administrivia - LISTSERV Upgrade

[Alex Rudd]

Dear SEELANGS Members,

Starting tomorrow, 18 January 2005, the server on which this list makes
its home will begin running a new version of the LISTSERV(R) software.
This is a good thing, as it's the latest version, with many new features,
most of which will be invisible to you, the end user.  However, there
will be at least one change you will notice, so this note is to advise
you of it.

As you may (or should?) know, you can always reach the SEELANGS list
owners by writing to the list owners' address, which is:

SEELANGS-Request at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU

That convention, of being able to reach the list owners of any list
run using the LISTSERV software by writing to the listname-Request
address, has existed since the early days of LISTSERV.  It's a
reliable way to reach the list owners of any LISTSERV list, even if
you don't know who those people are or what their own e-mail addresses
might be.

Unfortunately, senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail (i.e., spammers)
also picked up on the reliability of that system and we list owners
have been the targets of large volumes of spam for years as a result.

So, starting with this new version of LISTSERV, all e-mail to
listname-Request addresses will require confirmation from the sender
before they will be delivered to the list owners.

>From now on, when you write to us at SEELANGS-Request, LISTSERV will
mail you back a confirmation request.  You will be able to confirm
in one of two ways, both of which are equally simple.  You will
either reply to the confirmation message and put in the body of
the reply only one word, "OK" (without the quotation marks), or
else you will just click on the link contained in the confirmation
request.  Don't worry about remembering; instructions will be
included in every confirmation message.

Other than that, despite the fact that there have actually been
174 changes made in this newest version of LISTSERV, you will
probably not notice any of them.  If you should happen to make
use of our Web interface, for example to search the list's archives
in your Web browser, then you may notice one or two things slightly
different, but nothing that will radically alter your experience.

For those of you who might have a morbid curiosity about such
things, you can view the release notes for this latest version
of LISTSERV by retrieving the following text file (though there
really is no need):

ftp://ftp.lsoft.com/documents/relnotes/LSV14-3.relnotes

Any questions, please reply off-list.

Thanks.

- Alex, list owner of SEELANGS    seelangs-request at listserv.cuny.edu
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Alex Rudd                ahrjj at cunyvm.cuny.edu            ARS KA2ZOO
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