[Commlist] housekeeping message from the commlist - important!!!

Dear colleagues and friends on the commlist,

For many of us the semester has started again, and this is a good 
occasion to brief you on a major commlist novelty.

First of all, we've almost reached 9000 subscribers, which is yet 
another reason for celebration.

The large number of subscribers also makes things a bit demanding for 
me, though. After all, this is still a one-person voluntary 
non-remunerated initiative (with some help from friends). Call it my 
gift to the academic community. Still, I'd like to continue to survive 
giving this gift, and I'd like to have the commlist survive as well.

This is a 9000 vs 1 setting, which should make everybody a bit careful. 
You can contribute a lot to the list's survival, and simply keeping this 
9000 vs 1 model in mind, would already help a lot.

> > reading the guidelines before posting<<

One thing I would like to point out here is the need to read the 
guidelines (at commlist.org) BEFORE you send in a posting request. Many 
of the posting requests I receive, do not comply with these guidelines, 
arrive at the wrong email address (or even worse, at several email 
addresses), and I then have to guide the posters through the guidelines, 
which is a bit cumbersome and avoidable ...

In short, the basic commlist posting rules are: 1/no attachments, 2/no 
html, and 3/add an introductory note. The first two help to keep the 
list clean, the third one helps me to quickly identify posting requests, 
and distinguish between personal invitations and mailing list posting 
requests, which I really don't want to mix up.

> > the commlist digest<<

The good news that I can bring you, is that we now have the digest 
system up and working. The folks at Nordstack Services OÜ (thanks!) and 
I have been working on this digest system since the beginning of 2019, 
and we went live with a test group of 150 people right before this 
summer. Everything appears to be stable now, so anybody who wants to 
switch to the digest system, can do so.

>>How to switch to the digest or not<<

The instructions on how to switch to the digest system are at 
commlist.org. Simply click on the "Subscribe and/or unsubscribe" link at 
commlist.org, and you'll find all you need to know to make this change.

The old system will remain active - if you wish to receive each posting 
separately, take no action. The flow will keep on coming. If you wish to 
receive only one message every week, with all postings aggregated into 
one (fairly rough) list, then switch to digest.

(And if you want to stop all postings, simply unsubscribe, and consult 
the archive at http://commlist.org/archive/, if that is what you prefer.)

The digest is an old request of many of you, almost as old as the list 
itself, and we have finally managed to implement it, after 9 months of 
developing, tweaking and testing. The high project workload was the main 
reason for waiting for a good opportunity, which came in December 2018 
with the crash of our good old mailing list server at vub.ac.be and the 
migration to our new server at commlist.org.

I hope you'll enjoy this new feature (and the rest of the commlist ...).

Kind regards, and happy commlisting,
Nico






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