SEELANGS Administrivia - LISTSERV Upgrade

[Alex Rudd]

Dear SEELANGS Members,

Please be advised that the Office of Information Technology at the
University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa (which runs the server that hosts
the SEELANGS list) will be performing an upgrade of the LISTSERV
software this coming Thursday, July 7, 2011.  The upgrade is scheduled
to take place between 0700 and 0900 CDT (UTC/GMT -5 hours).  During
that time period LISTSERV messages, including posts to the list, will
be -delayed- but not bounced.  Also, the Web interface that some of
you use to search the archives or control your subscription options
might be down as well.

We've been using version 15.0 of the LISTSERV software for a few years
now, and it was a great improvement over previous versions.  This
upgrade will bring us LISTSERV version 16.0, which promises to be even
better, although you might not notice many of the changes as a list
subscriber.  Some improvements that you may well notice include the
following:

RSS Previews: The LISTSERV archives now display hovering RSS previews
when moving the mouse over the subject line of a message.

Improved Archive Search: The archive search has been improved to use
more accurate sorting for search results that span multiple pages.

Improved Message Posting Interface: Not many of you use it, but the
Web interface can be used not only to search the archives and control
your subscription options, but it can also be used to post messages to
the list, either new messages or replies to others' posts.  The
Message Posting Interface has been improved to include a "Show
Advanced" button, and when you click it, you will have the ability to
schedule your post.  In other words, you can choose to post your
message right away, or you can schedule it to be posted at some
specified time in the future.

For anyone who really cares (and has lots and lots of free time), a
60-page document describing all the new and improved features in
version 16.0 can be had by clicking on this link:

http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/16.0/LISTSERV16.0_WhatsNew.pdf

NOTE: Although some of the improvements involve changes to the way
LISTSERV handles HTML-encoded text and character sets other than
ISO-8859-1, please remember that the SEELANGS guidelines state that
one may post only in plain (ASCII) text.  (Posting in Cyrillic is
tolerated, of course, although we have always suggested that those
people doing so include transliterations for people with e-mail
clients incapable of deciphering encoded text.)  Also, attachments are
automatically stripped if submitted and are not distributed with
posts.  Those policies are in place both to reduce the amount of disk
space our archives take up, but also to spare our subscribers' hard
drives.

If you have any technical questions regarding these changes, please
direct them to the list owners at:

SEELANGS-Request at BAMA.UA.EDU

Thanks.

- Alex, list owner of SEELANGS
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Alex Rudd
List owner e-mail: seelangs-request at bama.ua.edu
Personal e-mail: Alex.Rudd at gmail.com
http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/
Any opinion expressed above is not necessarily shared by my employers.

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