Michael,

Thanks for all your effort to pull the migration through.

Best,

Rohan

On Nov 13, 2019, at 1:17 PM, Hans Keiren <hanskerensky@...> wrote:

Thanks for the great work Michael !

Op wo 13 nov. 2019 om 12:37 schreef mark.matusiak <mmatusiak@...>:

Thanks, Michael!? I will have to go check out the site.

On 11/13/2019 6:15 AM, Michael Moffatt wrote:
> Testing that I can reply to my own ZICG message!
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> On 13/11/19 12:00 PM, Michael Moffatt wrote:
>> Hi ZICG,
>>
>> Looks the migration has been completed to . I have set the
>> group to be publicly findable and I will shortly set the Yahoo group
>> to disable messages. People should be able to post here now. But I'll
>> post a test message shortly.
>>
>> I am deeply grateful to those who donated to defray costs. Your
>> generosity made a huge dent in the bill and I will recognize those
>> people later in a digest message somehow. Unsurprisingly, I didn't
>> see 10% of people donate $2, but the people who gave between $5 to
>> $20 (in varying currencies) offset that.
>>
>> The migration itself looks okay, but here is a couple of points that
>> I have noticed:
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>> (1) Our membership fell from 1072 members to 850.
>>
>> I expected that because a number of member email addresses were hard
>> bouncing and probably the email accounts don't exist anymore. The
>> migration didn't take them, which I think is a reasonable thing.
>> Additionally, a handful of people immediately unsubscribed after the
>> migration.
>>
>> (2) Some photos didn't appear to make it over, but I will fix that
>> manually later.
>>
>> (3) Some email messages appear to be timestamped incorrectly, so the
>> archives may not show a message on the real date it was sent.
>>
>> For example, the first message in the archives is dated as 1998, but
>> this is not possible because there were no archives before May 2000.
>> This is probably caused by someone posting to ZICG using a computer
>> with the time set incorrectly. I do not believe I can fix that manually.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to smooth sailing for another 20 years! Something
>> tells me that's hopeless optimism.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michael Moffatt
>> ZICG Admin
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