Folks,
We knew all along that it was in the works but it now final! St Johns
University our host has set date to discontinue Maelstrom. Come Feb 1
2006 we must find a new place for the Bantanta. Already a couple of
people have offered to host it. Amadou Kabir Njie offered to lead a
Yahoo group by the same name and Abdoulie Jallow (BambaLaye) has offered
Gambia-talk services to host Gambia-l .  In any case we must seek to
maintain a few core values. 1. access and control over the archives and
2. open and free spirited debate environment. A number of people
supported BambaLaye offer based on believe that we as a community would
have more control over the archives than with the Yahoo group situation.
Whether this is real or not I  am not computent to say.

Perhaps it is about time to set a timetable for migrating to our new
host and make sure things are working before the Feb deadline.

We thank St Johns for all the service and wish Gambia-l a new and better
home.

Malanding Jaiteh



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Subject:        ADMIN: Disconnect of Maelstrom service
Date:   Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:28:13 -0400
From:   Official Announcement <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To:       Owners of lists on MAELSTROM <[log in to unmask]>
To:     [log in to unmask]



This posting is on the ADMIN topic, please be careful with replies.

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Disconnect of Maelstrom service:

The University is no longer in a position to support the Maelstrom
List Service.  As of February 1, 2006, St. John's will discontinue
the service.

List owners should make arrangements to migrate to another service
prior to the disconnect date.

                                  St. John's University

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