[Simh] SIMH mailing list will be migrating to groups.io in next month

[Armistead, Jason]

Many thanks Tim for your selfless years of dedication to SIMH.  We appreciate your efforts and are equally frustrated by the impact “bad actors” have had on the Internet and all who use it.

PS: Maybe once the migration to groups.io is done, there is an opportunity to donate a copy of the mailing list archives to BitSavers or some other computer history project just so that there’s a permanent backup “for posterity”.  It would be a shame to lose the collective wisdom of this list over such a long period. I am constantly impressed by everything that people have contributed to the SIMH community, especially the detailed discussions of all sort of technical nuances and stories of the people, life and times at DEC and other companies/organizations during those early foundational years of computing history.


From: Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Tim Shoppa
Sent: Wednesday, 3 October 2018 3:49 PM
To: SIMH
Subject: [External] [Simh] SIMH mailing list will be migrating to groups.io in next month

I have hosted the SIMH mailing list from my home server since December 2003.. That is almost 15 years now.

In the past several years, increasing spam and fishing attempts especially through Chinese and Russian internet services have overwhelmed my ability to run a home E-mail list server. A few years ago I summarily banned large swaths of the internet potentially making mailing list participation impossible to large parts of the world. At the same time, my home e-mail server does not send authenticated E-mails so they aren't acceptable to many E-mail addresses that are subscribed.

I am planning to re-host the mailing list at groups.io<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__groups.io&d=DwMFaQ&c=ilBQI1lupc9Y65XwNblLtw&r=CeQuuq99aEH_1RE1yGnGXY4AbMg6_1cjkYeJjaT-sd4&m=pDogkPm2J3f79P00scH2dOGobs8-m8etrXVKVWYa35U&s=QuS4MIjq0UeW0xGge8j6aQzJ2-zLhGkHNFslIq2lnJ0&e=>, which is a popular E-mail *and* web based platform, in the next month.

I will still be overall list-owner and moderator. (Fortunately the list is techie enough that I hardly ever have to do any moderation).

Archives of 2003-2018 SIMH mailing list traffic will continue to be available through my home server but all new mailing list traffic will be through the groups.io<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__groups.io&d=DwMFaQ&c=ilBQI1lupc9Y65XwNblLtw&r=CeQuuq99aEH_1RE1yGnGXY4AbMg6_1cjkYeJjaT-sd4&m=pDogkPm2J3f79P00scH2dOGobs8-m8etrXVKVWYa35U&s=QuS4MIjq0UeW0xGge8j6aQzJ2-zLhGkHNFslIq2lnJ0&e=> mail or web interfaces. I will still be list-owner and overall moderator.

Thank you all!
Tim Shoppa
trailing-edge site owner and SIMH mailing list administrator

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