Re: [Webnet] Re: [Micronet] CalMail

Hi Pat,

   (With apologies to the members of the various lists copied on this
message -- the many lists that you originally copied. In the future,
I'd like to encourage you and others who have specific questions or
requests related to the CalMail service to write directly to
<calmail-feedback@listlink.berkeley.edu>, rather than broadcasting
them to many hundreds of campus support providers -- some of whom
will receive multiple copies of these messages.)

At 10:07 -0800 2004-01-09, Pat Soberanis wrote:
>One of our nontechnical staff just sent a link for a 1/7 NewsCenter
>story on the migration, and on that page is a link to a story from
>yesterday, 1/8, saying the migration date has been postponed until
>Jan. 17:
>
>http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/01/08_uclink.shtml
>
>Is this true? If so, why did the NewsCenter staff know - with enough
>lead time to report and write the story, no less - and the tech
>lists don't?

   The decision to postpone the UCLink->CalMail migration occurred
around 3 pm yesterday, January 8. Some final details regarding this
decision, such as the details of the voluntary self-migration during
January 12-17, were still being worked out even after 3 pm.

   The 1/8 News Center article you cite, as well as a formal
announcement to the Micronet list -- the first of a number of
identical announcements to seven different campus computing support
mailing lists -- both came out in the 5-6 pm timeframe yesterday, a
couple of hours later.

   The link to the January 8 NewsCenter article was added to the
January 7 article at around the same time, also at around 5-6 pm.
That link is prominently marked "Update", and is dated "1.8.2004".

   There was no prior knowledge on the part of the original article's
author, on Wednesday, January 7, of the decision to delay the CalMail
migration that was made at 3 pm the following day. It is difficult
for me, at least, to see how someone could draw such a conclusion,
based simply on the addition of a dated "Update" link to the original
article.

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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