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[ryan.abrams AT attbi.com]

Hey all,

This message is to all the lists to serve several 
functions:

1) To inform everyone that we are indeed back up and 
running with the lists. Archives of the old lists HAVE 
been preserved, and will be put back online in the near 
future.

2) To explain the new list layout. We have 5 lists 
total, 4 currently active. They are:
sm-admin    - this is a publically readable discussion 
list that only team members can post to. This allows 
full visibility while preserving a high signal to noise 
ratio as we grow.
sm-discuss  - this list is a public discussion list.
sm-sorcery  - this list is for sorcery
sm-grimoire - this list is for the grimoire
sm-spell-submit - spell submission ONLY. discussion will 
not be permitted on this list, and instead should be 
sent to sm-grimoire.

The following lists have NOT been recreated:

sm-announce - this will be replaced by a function in our 
upcoming news script. In the meantime, use sm-discuss.

sm-cvs - this will be recreated, but may be on 
cvs.sourcemage.org since it is simply a distribution 
list.

sm-*-bugs - these have not yet been created as an 
experiment in the use of bugzilla. If there seems to be 
a need for seperate lists, they can be created in the 
future.

3) To point out that despite the few days of downtime, 
we are most definately back. I have been documenting the 
few remaining needs we have to get our site 
configuration back to 100%, and will be working with 
ibiblio next week to complete the transition.

4) To explain why all this was neccessary. We have 
needed a stable solid well mananged base for our core 
servers for a long time. ibiblio will provide us with 
the resources we need to do the following:

  a) pursue space/bandwidth intensive ideas such as 
mirroring all source tarballs in our grimoires locally 
as backup, and providing patches to source tarballs.
  b) configure simple mirroring guidelines for potential 
mirrors via rsync
  c) automatically provide worldwide mirrors through the 
nature of ibiblio

5) To get things rolling. The lists are quiet. Lets 
liven them up again. Why not go back to some threads you 
want to continue, and simply readdress them to the new 
lists?

6) To point out that while @lists.ibiblio.org will 
always work, @sourcemage.org does NOT yet work. I hope 
to get this working again in the near future. This 
applies not only to list addresses, but also to 
@sourcemage.org address. i.e. rabrams AT sourcemage.org is 
down, but rabrams AT ibiblio.org is working. This will be 
fixed in the future, and team members will get 
@sourcemage.org addresses or forwards per your requests 
from the team survey a while back.

Anyway, thats whats been going on. thanks to all of you 
for being patient as we get things sorted out.

-Ryan