Malanding, thanks for your response and I'm satisfied with your answer.  So,
we need to explore other alternatives.  Ginny mentioned yahoogroups, which I
belong to a few groups that utilize them and they seem to work out fine for
those purposes.  Hopefully others can offer other solutions.  Thanks for
your leadership on this issue.

Chi Jaama

Joe

>From: Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: The future of Gambia L
>Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:08:20 -0400
>
>Joe,
>I would assure you that the decision to shutdown Maelstrom is unrelated
>to our recent poor ratings. This has been in the horizon for quite
>sometime now. I guess the driving force is money to maintain a couple of
>hundred discussion lists with a over 120,000 members and their archieves.
>I cannot agree more about the need need to sustain it though.
>
>Malanding
>
>[log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > Malanding, thanks for the heads-up. Is this because of the lack of
> > contributors/activity to the Gambia-L and sites like it? I think the L
> > is a
> > good asset to Gambians and we should do all we can to sustain it.
> >
> > Chi Jaama
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >> From: Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
> >> <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: The future of Gambia L
> >> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:32:37 -0400
> >>
> >> Folks,
> >> There is serious talk behind scene that St John's University our host
> >> will shut down Maelstrom the server Gambia-l and many others operate
> >> from. While no public statement is received from officials at St Johns,
> >> it looks like the future isn't all that great. In order to avoid any
> >> serious disruption when the day comes, I would suggest that we start
> >> shopping around for another host. There are a number of alternatives
>out
> >> there.
> >> Look for another free host like St Johns or Univesity of Washington
> >> Subscribe to Companies that host lists for a fee (this does not look
> >> viable although its good to know)
> >> Alternatively, tech savvy members put resources together and setup our
> >> own G-L Listserv. I understand there are plenty of opensource
> >> technologies out there.
> >>
> >> Let me know what you think. At this point, all ideas are assumed good
> >> until proven otherwise.
> >>
> >> Malanding Jaiteh
> >>
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