Question about changing the names of a list
I have a client who wishes to change the name of their list. Is there a shorter, more efficient way of doing this than creating a new list, configuring it to the old one and then deleting the old list?
Thanks in advance. Janice Leong, Web Production Manager
NetEffect Communications - www.neteffect.ca <http://www.neteffect.ca/>
janice@neteffect.ca <mailto:janice@neteffect.ca> t. 416.350.8376 x 229 | f. 416.350.9661 366 Adelaide St. West, Unit 400, Toronto, ON M5V 1R9
I have had customers ask to do this as well...
IMHO it does not make sense to re-name a list, all of the archives will have the old address which is confusing to any current readers (think google searches) and in the end the email address for the list changes so you have to do an alias and the old list address just never goes away...
I explain some of this to them and offer to start a fresh list with the new name but at the expense of dropping the old list altogether (they can inform the subscribers through the new list)
It makes them think really hard about it and so far they stay with the existing list!
Quoting Janice Leong <janice@neteffect.ca>:
Bill Hilburn NOC Frontier Internet
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At 10:29 -0700 1/12/2003, Bill Hilburn wrote:
Thanks, Bill...that reminded me to verify that our service description for mailing list offerings advises people to be sure of the name when they request the list. And probably make the statement stronger if it is there
--John (who is about to undertake a transfer of mailing lists to a machine with
Much newer Linux Much newer Exim Much newer Mailman Probably a different location for the Mailman list directory... I think I'll probably recreate the lists. And then there are the four still on Majordomo on an even older server.)
John Baxter jwblist@olympus.net Port Ludlow, WA, USA
I have had customers ask to do this as well...
IMHO it does not make sense to re-name a list, all of the archives will have the old address which is confusing to any current readers (think google searches) and in the end the email address for the list changes so you have to do an alias and the old list address just never goes away...
I explain some of this to them and offer to start a fresh list with the new name but at the expense of dropping the old list altogether (they can inform the subscribers through the new list)
It makes them think really hard about it and so far they stay with the existing list!
Quoting Janice Leong <janice@neteffect.ca>:
Bill Hilburn NOC Frontier Internet
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At 10:29 -0700 1/12/2003, Bill Hilburn wrote:
Thanks, Bill...that reminded me to verify that our service description for mailing list offerings advises people to be sure of the name when they request the list. And probably make the statement stronger if it is there
--John (who is about to undertake a transfer of mailing lists to a machine with
Much newer Linux Much newer Exim Much newer Mailman Probably a different location for the Mailman list directory... I think I'll probably recreate the lists. And then there are the four still on Majordomo on an even older server.)
John Baxter jwblist@olympus.net Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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