ITTS Update

As of April 25, 2007, we have completed the process of migrating Listproc lists to Sympa. We are grateful to Dale Ghent of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, for sharing the scripts he developed for migrating lists from Listproc to Sympa. Tom Craven, our consultant from Valcom, and Matt Ivaliotes, Internet Administrator, did an outstanding job of making this long-awaited day possible.

We have received a script from a UNIX systems specialist at the University of Maryland Baltimore County that converts Listproc lists to Sympa. It has required some modifications to work in our situation, but we have tested it and expect to be able to begin converting all active lists sometime in the next week or so. In preparation, we have asked list owners to identify lists that are no longer active and can be eliminated before the conversion takes place. List owners will be notified well in advance when we are ready to proceed with conversions. We greatly appreciate the generosity of Dale Ghent at the University of Maryland Baltimore County!

Our managed services provider, Valcom, is picking up work on the conversion scripts to move our discussion lists from ListProc to Sympa. We have placed greater priority on this project, as moving to Sympa will significantly improve our mail volume issues. Sympa handles error messages much more efficiently than ListProc does.

Jack Briody's departure in November has caused us to re-evaluate this project. We expect to be able to contract with Jack to complete this project on a contract basis before Midwinter.