Subject: [EL] Important information on migration of election law, legislation listservs, and Election Law Blog
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 5/11/2011, 8:07 AM
To: Election Law <election-law@mailman.lls.edu>, Legislation <legislation@mailman.lls.edu>
CC: "Furukawa, Patty" <pfurukawa@law.uci.edu>, Wittenberg <Chris.Wittenberg@lls.edu>, jim.kieley <jim.kieley@lls.edu>, Terence Mitchell <Terence.Mitchell@lls.edu>, Rob Larmon <Robert.Larmon@lls.edu>, "Chris@mailman.lls.edu" <Chris@mailman.lls.edu>

You are receiving this message because you are a subscriber to the Election Law listserv or the Legislation listserv (or both).

Over the next few weeks, the two listservs' administrative functions will be moved from the Loyola Law School's servers to the servers at UC Irvine.  The Election Law Blog, currently hosted by Loyola, will also move hosting services to UCI.  These moves come as I complete my transition from Loyola to UCI.

During the time of the listserv migrations, the listservs will be down.  Messages sent to either list will not go through, and they will not appear when the migration is complete.  Instead, any messages sent during the down time will need to be resent once the migration is complete.  The process should take 1-2 days, and I will alert you when the process begins and ends.  After the process is complete, listserv messages will be coming to you from a uci.edu address, rather than an lls.edu address.  You'll need to make sure that those messages don't go into a junk or spam folder when they arrive.

After the migration of the listservs, you will need to use a different address to post messages to the list.  I'll be sending out that new address when the migration is complete.  You will not need to do anything to update your subscription, as subscription information will be transferred during the migration.

Thanks to Loyola's generosity, Loyola Law School will continue to host the archives of messages posted to the list before the migration.  Archived listserv messages have been cited, linked, and quoted in the past in law review articles, blog posts, and elsewhere (with the permission of the poster, consistent with listserv policy).  By continuing to host the old archives, Loyola will ensure that the links to these old messages will remain active.  Any messages posted after the migration will appear in archives on UC Irvine servers.

There will also be some downtime when the Election Law Blog moves servers.  This will result in some time when the blog, and its archives, will be unavailable.  I'll post a message before this transition occurs and then let you know through the listservs once this migration is complete.

Finally, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the IT professionals at Loyola who have done an excellent job at maintaining the smooth function of these listservs and the blog over my years at Loyola.  Thanks to Jim Kieley, Terry Mitchell, Rob Larmon, Chris Wittenberg, and others at Loyola who have made the technology which allows our communications about election law and legislation issues to appear seamless and effort-free.  In fact, the IT side takes a lot of effort, and I appreciate their hard work and dedication.

Rick
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Rick Hasen
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UC Irvine School of Law
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William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law
Loyola Law School
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