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BestServ to be discontinued

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From: Verio Migration
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:47
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Dear Customer:

The Mountain View POP (Point of Presence) is being closed. Most of our
customers hosted in this datacenter have already been migrated and are
in the process of being integrated into Verio's national network. Those
that have not migrated will be soon.

As the integration with Verio proceeds, Best's listserv service,
BestServ, will be discontinued. To assist you in the transition we have
compiled a list of free alternatives to BestServ.

1. Mojo Mail - "Mojo Mail is An Easy E-mail List Management System to
use on your website. It works on any site that can run CGI scripts, and
can be set up in minutes" (http://mojo.skazat.com/index.html).

2. Online mailing lists, such as Yahoo Egroups (http://groups.yahoo.com/)
and Topica (http://www.topica.com/) work well.
Google (http://groups.google.com/) allows some users to create newsgroups.
However, they don't grant every request for newsgroup additions.

3. SmartList - "SmartList is built on top of procmail and provides for
the simple creation and handling of mailing lists, including fully
automated subscription/unsubscription/help-request processing,
intelligent autoremoval of addresses from the list that cause too many
bounces, a built in archive server (with MIME support), and just about
all the other mailing list features you can think of"
(http://www.procmail.org/). For more info about SmartList, see
http://www.hartzler.net/smartlist/SmartList-FAQ.html

To avoid any disruptions in your mailing list activities, please move
your lists to an alternative before December 10, 2001. After this time
your lists on BestServ will be inaccessible.

Regards,

Verio Web Hosting
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From: Verio Migration <migrate@best.net>
Newsgroups: best.general
Subject: BestServ to be discontinued
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:47:42 +0000 (UTC)
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