Re: Pgfoundry and gborg: shut one down

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:49:30PM +0700, Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:
> On Mon, February 20, 2006 11:00, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> >> Speaking for libpqxx, my only concern with that is the mailing list.
> >> Would those have to move to different addresses--or conversely, would a
> >> forced migration make it much easier to move *all* GBorg mailing lists
> >> to
> >> pgFoundry and maintain their old addresses?
> >
> > All addresses would have to be changed to the pgfoundry.org one ...
> 
> Ouch!  Moving my project off GBorg wasn't so hard, but forcing all mailing
> list subscribers to move to a different address does hurt.
> 
> If the same goes for many other projects on there, wouldn't it be possible
> to move all mail handling for gborg.postgresql.org over to pgFoundry at
> once, but preserve the domain name and list names?  It may help people
> make the jump if mailing list migration could be decoupled from the other
> changes.

Actually, it should be entirely possible to setup forwarding for
projects as they migrate, one-by-one. AFAIK mailman will handle
something like project-blah@gbork.org being forwarded to
project-blah@pgfoundry.org.
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