[KineJapan] IMPORTANT: Moving KineJapan to new server

[Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan]

This was a lot of work over a long period of time. Three cheers for Aaron!
 —Markus

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*Markus Nornes*
*Professor of Asian Cinema*
Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, Department of Asian Languages and
Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design

*Department of Screen Arts and Cultures*
*6348 North Quad*
*105 S. State Street*
*Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285*


On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:47 PM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via
KineJapan <kinejapan at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Hello KineJapan subscribers,
>
> As has been mentioned a number of times on the list, KineJapan is
> currently distributed via a Mailman server at Ohio State University. That
> has been our home for about 20 years, thanks to the generosity of Maureen
> Donovan, who was at OSU and one of the three original owners of the list.
> Maureen, however, recently retired, and without her at OSU, KineJapan is
> now housed at an institution where we don’t have any direct influence.
>
> The plan has been to move the list to Yale, where I teach. The Kinema Club
> website is currently housed at Yale, so moving KineJapan there is only
> natural. I have talked with the IT people and they assure me that some of
> the problems we have had with this list—especially when some major servers
> started rejecting our mail and we had to switch the settings to KineJapan
> in the “From” line—should not happen at Yale. The logistics of the move are
> not simple, however, since we have about 20 years of list archives that
> need to be transferred as well.
>
> It took a while, but the IT people at Yale have finally succeeded in
> transferring or duplicating the list archives to the Yale server. The
> archives are unfortunately not complete, since one of the problems we had
> with OSU is that they erased nearly all of the first 10 years of our
> archives when they moved the list to a new mail server within OSU. Luckily,
> Yale’s IT people have been able to resurrect most of that based on mails
> that I and others have saved, and also transfer what came after that to the
> Yale server. There are some portions missing, but it is now much more
> complete than the archives currently on the OSU site.
>
> So now it’s time for the big announcement:
>
> WE WILL BE MOVING THE KINEJAPAN LIST TO THE YALE SERVER ON JUNE 1, 2018
>
> Since there are currently a lot of dead addresses on our list (the result
> again of about 20 years of running KineJapan), it will be best to clean
> everything out by manually switching subscriptions. In other words:
>
> EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO CONTINUE ON KINEJAPAN NEEDS TO RE-SUBSCRIBE ON THE
> YALE SERVER
>
> The server is active now, but in order to make a clean cut on the list and
> with the archives, the switchover will take place on June 1. You can
> subscribe on the Yale server now, but no posts will be allowed until June
> 1. Continue to use this list until May 31. (I will then ask Yale IT to
> transfer the May archive, which will complete the move.)
>
> HOW TO RE-SUBSCRIBE:
>
> First, go to:
>
> http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan
>
> In the section SUBSCRIBING TO KINEJAPAN, enter your e-mail address and
> your name. Also pick a password which will allow you to change your
> settings later.
>
> Then just click “Subscribe”! It’s easy!
>
> Forgive me in advance, but I will be sending versions of this announcement
> multiple times over the next few weeks to make sure people see it.
>
> Hope this goes well!
>
> Aaron Gerow
> Yale University
> KineJapan owner
>
>
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