[Emacspeak] List and Archive progress

[Greg Priest-Dorman <priestdo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A few things to share about the new list and the site at www.emacspeak.org. 

Blocked mail:

Five of the addresses I imported from the existing emacspeak list are not getting the new list's messages. Two are being rejected due to our mail host's IP address being on a reject list maintained by CSI Cloudmark.  I have again requested a reset from Cloudmark. Cloudmark's page says they will "look into it" and only contact me if they need more information from me.  So, we wait and see.  The other 3 bouncing addresses give the message "timed out while receiving the initial server greeting".  Some of the addresses may no longer be valid but at least one of them has posted as recently as December.  I have written to each individual from a gmail account to see if that gets through or bounces. Time will tell.  In the meantime, if you are not getting your list messages (perhaps you are reading this from the usenet gateway or the hyperkitty archive) please let me know and we will figure out what we need to do.

Archive of messages from before the move:

First off, all existing links from the old Vassar archive at www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/emacspeak are now correctly redirecting to the pages under www.emacspeak.org/VCCS-archive so any links to specific emails returned by web searches or in posted articles to the old site will continue to work! Eventually Vassar might remove that rewrite rule but that will likely not happen soon. Much thanks to Matt, the current VCCS Systems Admin for his help there. If you have any web pages with specific links to the archive, please change "www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/emacspeak/" to "www.emacspeak.org/VCCS-archive/" to ensure the links will continue to properly resolve.

Additionaly, Jon Pielaet has been helping gather all the emails missing from the existing archive.   In the near future we should have all missing emails from 2015 forward available in the archive as well.  Once there I will add search functionality.

Help request:

If anyone here has experience with importing existing mail messages into hyperkitty please write me off list.  I'd like to get the old list messages into the new archive.  The docs say it is possible, but if someone here has already done it, talking with you will save Tim and I a bunch of time getting it done!

Lastly, I didn't math so good.  Looking back I see the first message I posted announcing the list at Vassar was on May 3, 1996. I thought it was in 1995. So the list was there under 25 years not over 25 years as I had thought.  

That's it for me. As always, please let me know if you have any problems or issues using the list or website. 

Greg