[Novalug] Tux.org upgrade changes -- status report.

[Jay Hart]

Every time I open an email from the novalug list now, it asks me if I want to
install iTunes and for some other reason the MAC version of Word.

Can you make this stop!!!!!

Other then that, I'm very happy with your changes.

Jay

>
> Earlier this morning I announced plans to move the Linux lists from Microsoft
> Windows XP to Microsoft Vista and this caused many of you to become very
> angry.  Some suggested it might be some sort of April fools joke.
>
> Because of the last minute outburst of emails emphatically requesting that we
> move away from Microsoft products, this gave us the opportunity to try
> something completely different.  Since Greg Pryzby of novalug is a MacOS fan,
> we thought we'd give MacOS a chance to run the mailing lists.
>
> Our upgrade to MacOS is mostly complete, as you can see with the traffic of
> incoming mail from the various Linux lists.  This are working quite well and
> MacOS is able to handle the volume of emails very well.
>
> The only problems remaining at this point stem from connectivity issues.
> Since we actually chose Greg's iPhone for our MacOS host, our connectivity to
> the internet depends on the distance between Greg's pants and the nearest Wifi
> hostpost.
>
> This means that your email client may occasionally report "host not found"
> errors when trying to send mail while Greg is in the grocery store, driving on
> the highway or in the far northeast corner of his lawn.
>
> We are working on attaching a high-gain antenna to Greg's pants to correct
> this issue, but this is only experimental.
>
> Thanks, again, for your patience.  We appreciate it on this special day.
>
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