File spoon-archives/marxism-general.archive/marxism-general_1998/marxism-general.9804, message 101


Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:44:57 +0000
From: David Welch <welch-AT-mcmail.com>
Subject: Re: M-G: Note to the M-G List


A list could probably be run (at least on a tempory basis) from a private
email account. The account owner would get the mail once a day and forward
it to the subscribers. It would slow down discussion a bit and be tough on
the owner's phonebill (and on the ISP) but doable. 

David Welch

On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 07:09:43PM +0000, Siddharth Chatterjee wrote:
> 
> Comrades,
> 
> Today I tried to access the archives of M-G, M-SCI and M-I at the
> Spoons home page. For some reason, I could not access any of them 
> them (message came back that the connection with the server 
> containing the archives could not be established or the URL could 
> not be found). It appears that the Spoons Collective may have removed 
> public access to the archives.
> 
> At this point, it is crucial that we get a list of all the current 
> subscribers to M-G. I have sent a 'who marxism-general' command to 
> majordomo at virginia. I will report to the list if successful or 
> not. If we are unable to get a list from jefferson, then we will have 
> to build one ourselves - fast. Due to the moderator Hans Erhbar's 
> current rule of 1 post a day (of less than 10 Kb), effective 
> communication about this urgent issue is hindered. 
> 
> Once we have the list of subscribers, a server willing to host us 
> will have to be be found. In this regard,  Jose Polanco's 
> suggestion about finding a server in Europe is most helpful. Manual 
> operation will be needed for sometime to run the new list until it 
> can be automated. All comments on how to proceed welcome.
> 
> Sid 
> 
> 
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