[kfor] LEV to KFOR clarification

Andreas Breitscheid abreitscheid at sonicscene.de
Tue Feb 17 22:21:28 CET 2004


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Am 17. Feb 2004 um 22:03 Uhr schrieb Clay Chaplin:

> Hello Kfor . . .
>
> I hate to add another message to the bandwidth but I thought I should 
> clarify if possible.
>
> The LEV list was turned off a month or two ago because of legal 
> threats against CalArts and its involvement in hosting the list. I 
> won't go into how lame I think that was but it really was!
>
>  At that time, I sent a message to the list informing everyone that 
> the list would eventually be moving. Well that was two months ago and 
> I think a number of people tuned out. In that time I worked on getting 
> the server moved which took a little while to set up. Today, the Kfor 
> list (which IS the LEV list on a new server with a different name) was 
> turned on. No problem only that I had intended to email the LEV list 
> first and explain the changes. So I would imagine a number of LEV list 
> subscribers suddenly got messages (tons of them at first) from the 
> Kkor list not knowing what was happening. It was a simple timing error 
> in that the list (which is hosted far away from California) was turned 
> on a few hours before I could email the LEV list to warn everyone 
> about the move.
>
> I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused subscribed 
> members of the LEV list. My hopes were that LEV subscribers would be 
> able to stay on the Kfor list without having to subscribe again. 
> Instead a number of people were surprised and obviously some were 
> angry which is just how things like this go sometimes.
>
> I hope you will enjoy the new home for the Kfor (LEV) list and I'm 
> sorry for not making the transition process easier. Thanks to everyone 
> at the new servers for hosting the list.
>
> all the best,
>
> -Clay
>
>
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