[GSAS-board] Update on things web, mail, etc

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

1. Website changes.

After the board approved my proposal, I have made a couple more minor 
tweaks, and plan to flip to the new GSAS front page when Steev mails out 
the next newsletter.  For now, you can still view the concealed page at 
http://www.gsas.org/index-test.html

To access the private pages, the username is (right now) gsas-member and 
the password is wombat (lower-case).


2. Mailing list upgrade

I installed Sympa, and set up a prototype mailing list with Shango, Paul 
and Roy, because they were pretty representative of the different 
e-mailing types we've been getting.  They've been bombarding the fake list 
with pictures and all sort of other goodies.  They seem to like it too.

While this has been going on, I've been doing all the research (plus a 
fair share of script tweaking) so that I can migrate the old mailman user 
base to new system, and also recreate the archives (which go back 12 
years!).

Finally, a bit of a trivial side-benefit of going to Sympa.  The new lists 
will be in the gsas.org domain instead of thekrib.com.  I was thinking 
"memberchat@gsas.org" or "discussion@gsas.org", and "board@gsas.org".  If 
someone has a more decent name for the list (or thinks we should stick 
with gsas-member@gsas.org), please let me know.  In any case, mail sent to 
gsas-member@thekrib.com will forward to the new list for some time.

Once I locate all the original e-mail archives going back to 1998, I'll 
take the system offline for an hour some evening and it will magically 
come back to life.

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
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