328762 - Disable all of the old mozilla-* mail<->news gateways

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task, P1)

Description

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

We've got several mail<->news gateways still operating on the netscape.public.mozilla.* hierarchy, which need to be shut down as we've officially abandoned that hierarchy.  Our mailman server on that box is stressing at the moment, also, and this will hopefully help cut down on its stress load.

A quick check of the list server shows the following mail gateways still active:

mozilla-beos
mozilla-newsclips
mozilla-browser
mozilla-calendar-checkins
mozilla-checkins
mozilla-crash-data
mozilla-gtk
mozilla-layout-checkins
mozilla-mac
mozilla-macosx
mozilla-mstone
mozilla-patches
mozilla-performance-size-matters
mozilla-platform
mozilla-porkjockeys
mozilla-prefs
mozilla-qt
mozilla-rhapsody
mozilla-rt-messaging
mozilla-unix
mozilla-unix-checkins
mozilla-win32
mozilla-xpfe-checkins

We should start out by posting an email to each list notifying the membership that the list is being shut down.  I have a script on rheet which does this already that we used to mass-notify all the lists of the migration to the other list server a month or so ago.

I don't know if we need to wait after sending that notification before shutting them down.  Opinions?

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

suggestions on text of the email are welcome, too.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

You should include a URL to the new newsgroup list in the message, so people can move elsewhere.
http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html

Other than that, I don't mind much what happens.

Gerv

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> You should include a URL to the new newsgroup list in the message, so people
> can move elsewhere.
> http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html

There are no new newsgroups, these are the ones we're abandoning outright.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

oh, newsgroup *list*.  Yes, we should do that. :)

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

OK, the mailing on this has been sent, warning folks that the mail-to-news gateways for these groups will be shut down on Sunday.

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

And they're all gone!!!!

See https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/ for a list of remaining public mailing lists on rheet.