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<p>As the NW-Mailing-List approaches 30 years of existence, the time
has come to make some changes.</p>
<p>The Mailman software which has been running our mailing lists for
over 21 years has become unsupportable. Complying with the
increasing number and complexity of anti-spam and other e-mail
filters on the Internet has reached a breaking point. Our provider
Pair.com announced that they will end support for mailing lists at
the end of this year.</p>
<p>After reviewing our options, we determined that <b>groups.io</b> is
our best option for continuing to maintain the NW-Mailing-List.<br>
Groups.io expanded features such as file and photo sharing should
make the NW-Mailing-List a better tool for sharing our collective
knowledge and resources. Another consideration was that groups.io
will not resell our email addresses or target marketing material
to you.</p>
<p>As part of this move we will be merging our other lists such as
the nw-modeling-list into the one nw-mailing-list. </p>
<p>You will soon receive an email from Groups.io notifying you that
you have been added to the groups.io NW-Mailing-List. A link is
included in the email for logging in and establishing an account
password. (Yes another darn password!) Fortunately you will not
need the password to participate in the NW-Mailing-List. Messages
will continue to be email based although now a web interface is
available for those that prefer that choice. The difference will
be that emails will be sent to <<b><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@groups.io">nw-mailing-list@groups.io</a></b>>
instead of to the nwhs.org domain. </p>
<p>As we make this transition, <b>check your email spam settings</b>
and make sure the address <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@groups.io"><nw-mailing-list@groups.io></a>
is whitelisted so you will see all the messages from the list.</p>
<p>If you are already using groups.io with the same e-mail address,
NW-Mailing-List will show up in Your Groups.<br>
If you are new to groups.io, please click on the link included in
the email to establish a password to go with your email address.
This will unlock a web interface where you can customize the way
messages are sent and received from your account.<br>
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<p>If you want to opt out of the new mailing list, there will be a
link in the groups.io email to unsubscribe.</p>
<p>Thank you all for participating and contributing to this amazing
source of N&W/VGN information.</p>
<p>Ron Davis</p>
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