Folks, We knew all along that it was in the works but it now final! St Johns University our host has set date to discontinue Maelstrom. Come Feb 1 2006 we must find a new place for the Bantanta. Already a couple of people have offered to host it. Amadou Kabir Njie offered to lead a Yahoo group by the same name and Abdoulie Jallow (BambaLaye) has offered Gambia-talk services to host Gambia-l . In any case we must seek to maintain a few core values. 1. access and control over the archives and 2. open and free spirited debate environment. A number of people supported BambaLaye offer based on believe that we as a community would have more control over the archives than with the Yahoo group situation. Whether this is real or not I am not computent to say. Perhaps it is about time to set a timetable for migrating to our new host and make sure things are working before the Feb deadline. We thank St Johns for all the service and wish Gambia-l a new and better home. Malanding Jaiteh -------- Original Message -------- Subject: ADMIN: Disconnect of Maelstrom service Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:28:13 -0400 From: Official Announcement <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Owners of lists on MAELSTROM <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] This posting is on the ADMIN topic, please be careful with replies. ---------------------- Disconnect of Maelstrom service: The University is no longer in a position to support the Maelstrom List Service. As of February 1, 2006, St. John's will discontinue the service. List owners should make arrangements to migrate to another service prior to the disconnect date. St. John's University いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい