Migration of campus mailing lists last week

    In preparation for the move of the campus Data Center from Evans
Hall to 2195 Hearst later this month, campus mailing lists that were
hosted on the old, UCLink cluster - including the Micronet and MAGNet
lists - were migrated last Wednesday, June 3, 2004, to a new
rack-mounted Dell server. (For more on the impending Data Center
move, please see
<http://inews.berkeley.edu:7077/channels/iNews/dcmove/>.)

   The migration, performed by a number of my colleagues in IST's
Workstation Support Services and Central Computing Services
departments, was intended to be transparent, and appears so far to
have gone very smoothly. If you should notice any problems with the
Micronet or MAGNet lists in the aftermath of this migration, please
let me know, and I'll promptly get in touch with the CalMail folks to
resolve them.

Details regarding the migration
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All mailing lists previously hosted on the old UCLink cluster were
affected by this migration, both simple reflector-type lists and
lists administered through the majordomo list server. These are the
lists that you might readily associate with hostnames such as
lists.berkeley.edu (the canonical name), listlink.berkeley.edu,
uclink.berkeley.edu, and uclink4.berkeley.edu.

   This migration was solely to a new host (i.e. new hardware and
operating system), not to new mailing list software. For now, the
Micronet and MAGNet lists will continue to be handled by Majordomo
1.94.5. After the dust settles - both figuratively and literally -
from the Data Center migration, it is expected that a new mailing
list management package will be implemented on the campus's central
email system, CalMail, later this year. GNU Mailman and Sympa are
among the candidate packages under consideration.

   The migration was intended to be transparent. Both mail to the
lists and management of list memberships should continue to be
handled exactly as before. (The only visible difference should be
that the temporary hostname "listtest.berkeley.edu" has been
appearing in certain message headers; following a DNS change
scheduled for tomorrow, 2004-06-09, this hostname will change to
"lists.berkeley.edu".)

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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