New home on the internet!
Proudly announcing...
ifis.org.UK !!!
Yes, that's right, your information superhypewayman has gone and
bought us a domain all to ourselves.
It was looking like chris might not be able to keep the web pages at
cimio much longer, and I decided if we're going to have to move things
yet again, it might as well be to a PERMANENT home, so we never have
to move again. ifis.org.uk is OURS, and we can point it wherever we
want. At the moment I've moved everything here to my new workplace at
leonet, in east london, but if we had to move them anywhere else, we
can just point ifis.org.uk at the new place and you lot need never
know it had moved - it's still ifis.org.uk, wherever ifis.org.uk
happens to ACTUALLY be!
Therefore, some new addresses for you...
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THE WEB PAGES are at www.ifis.org.uk/
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Simple as that. none of those squiggly symbols that you can't find on
your keyboard, nobody's account names... as long as you can remember
that you're looking for the WorldWideWeb pages of IFIS, an
ORGanisation based in the UK, you'll find us.
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THE MAILING LISTS have moved too. please mail
chat@
or
announce@
as appropriate.
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The lists have also been configured so that when you reply to one of
the mails, your reply should go to the chat@ list, without
you having to fiddle with headers and things.
Replies to ANNOUNCE posts go to CHAT too. Yes, this is deliberate. If
you reply to an announcement, you're almost certainly chatting about
it.
FOR THE MOMENT...
If you mail either of the old addresses at cimio, chris will forward
to the new ones. Please get into the habit of using the new ones
though.
PLEASE NOTE!
DO NOT forget that it's ifis.org.UK - the UK on the end is vitally
important, because ifis.org is the "International Food Information
Service" - some lesser IFIS who have obviously just copied our name
because its a damned good name!
Also note that if you're on the gamesoc list, or adam-paintball, those
are still at cimio at the moment. Similarly the web pages for gamesoc
ae still at lucid, and have not changed. It's ONLY IFIS that has
changed. If gamesoc later want gamesoc@, or to buy
gamesoc.org.uk, they're welcome, but for the moment it's ONLY IFIS,
ok?
FINALLY!
If any of you would like an email address in the ifis.org.uk domain, I
can easily set one up for you. I would strongly reccommend
chairman@, treasurer@, etc, for a start, but
you're welcome to have luke@ or whatever too. Any email
sent to these addresses would then be immediately readdressed and sent
back out to you. When you change jobs or leave college, or whatever,
your "normal" email address will obviously change, but your
ifis.org.uk one could follow you as an "address for life"! They don't
cost you anything, but it's only fair that we restrict this to IFIS
MEMBERS ONLY, so if you DO want to keep an address for life, make sure
you keep paying your IFIS membership fee every year too. 3 or 4 quid a
year is PEANUTS for an address for life, before anyone complains.
If you got 2 copies of this, sorry. There are some people who are only
on chat, and some who are only on announce, so I've mailed both.
That's it...
Welcome to the new domain...
Nick Waterman. IFIS information superhypewayman.
Beating tomorrow's technology into submission.
nick-sig@ Team *AMIGA*!
Anything is good and useful if it's made of chocolate.