<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Well done Rick!</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">As someone who played around hosting servers from home in the 90s this is no mean feat. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">If you manage to restore the archives back to 95, is this not some kind of record?<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kind regards</span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rob </span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://gmsn.co.uk">gmsn.co.uk</a> </span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">07590 267835</span></div></div><div><br>On 30 Oct 2016, at 13:57, Rick Jansen <<a href="mailto:rick.jansen@xs4all.nl">rick.jansen@xs4all.nl</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">[NO PANIC]: ** SYNTH-DIY
HAS MOVED - THIS IS THE NEW LIST **<br>
<br>
Dear all,<br>
<br>
It's come up a few times in the past few years: I will be leaving
The Netherlands, and will no longer have the infrastructure to run
synth-diy from home, as I've done in the past uh... years. <br>
<br>
"synth-diy" started in 1995 on a machine at work using a mailing
list application called "majordomo", and moved with me to a
machine at a new job, also with majordomo. Then, when DSL lines
became available at home it moved to an old HP
windows-machine-turned-linux on a shelf above the coat rack when
I moved house. Subsequently it moved to an old mac mini on my desk
with "mailman", and proper backups, when that HP machine crashed,
which must have been in 2007, the start of the current archives. <br>
<br>
Now it is 2016, I am somewhere mid fiftmblbmbl, with a house that
was bought at the right time, it's mortgage now paid off, which
enables us to sell up, and move to the very south of Spain, to a
cheaper life, more sun, longer summers, but, no cable, no DSL,
just a wireless connection using antennae in the hills. Not suited
for running mailing lists.<br>
<br>
We're very fortunate that Ben Stuyts <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ben@stuyts.nl"></a><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ben@stuyts.nl"><ben@stuyts.nl></a>
has kindly provided a new home for synth-diy! He even has acquired
the domain "<a href="http://synth-diy.org">synth-diy.org</a>", and set up a virtual server with
mailman and apache, so the list has a new home, at:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.synth-diy.org/">http://www.synth-diy.org/</a><br>
<br>
I have taken the liberty of transferring the entire list, you the
subscribers, and archives to the new machine. So, from this very
moment synth-diy runs (t)here, unchanged apart from the address.
Instructions and links are on the page in above link. In short:<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <b>To subscribe</b>
point your browser to: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy">http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</a>
and follow instructions. </font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <b>To unsubscribe</b>
or manage your subscription go to: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://synth-diy.org/mailman/options/synth-diy"></a><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://synth-diy.org/mailman/options/synth-diy">http://synth-diy.org/mailman/options/synth-diy</a></font>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <b>To send a message</b>
to the list send a mail to: </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>
</font></p>
<font face="Arial"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The
"management" of the list, as far as that is/has been necessary,
I'll continue to do, together with Ben. Fortunately there is not
much fighting here, so people management tasks have been
minimal. From time to time, though, hardware or other services
fail, and some action is needed. Please contact either Ben, or
me, and we'll see how to fix things when necessary, though that
is now more in Ben's hands than in mine.<br>
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<font face="Arial"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I am <u><b>very
very</b></u> grateful to Ben that he is willing to
provide synth-diy's new home, and I'm relieved that
synth-diy will continue. As I'm sure you all will be! <br>
<br>
Personally I've been away from actual hardware electronics a
looong time. Paid software jobs seem to take up a lot of
one's time, somehow, but they provide food and shelter, and
mailing list infrastructures, among other things. I do
intend to get back to the world of simple silicon and
soldering, next to tending a house and garden, so probably
you'll see a bit more of me in the future.<br>
<br>
</font></font>All the best, and I (we) hope you continue to
enjoy, share, learn and teach here. <br>
<br>
Rick Jansen & Ben Stuyts<br>
<br>
PS<br>
As mentioned, the current archives start in 2007, so there are
some years missing. I'll have more free time in time to come,
and will put in effort to restore the years 1995-2007 from
available sources, soon. I'll get back to you for help with
that, in due time.<br>
<br>
<br>
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