[PW] Notice: Server transfer complete

[John Franklin]

The new server is now working. A certain number of you may still have  
trouble with the web interface to the list for a few days, but mail  
should now work properly. (I had forgotten that mail sent to the list  
initially goes through a server at a completely different hosting  
company, so as far as mail is concerned, the only DNS delay to worry  
about is the one at that hosting company. And since they also host  
the DNS record for the domain, they got the right version very quickly.)

All subscriptions which had been disabled due to excessive bounced  
mail have been re-enabled. (Since that includes a certain number of  
subscriptions which were legitimately disabled, I will probably start  
seeing notices again in a few weeks.)

For those of you who missed all the excitement, a (brief) explanation:

Some third party was caught sending spam. The server from which they  
sent spam was hosted by the same hosting company as the server from  
which Project Wombat mail was previously sent. Please note that the  
spam had nothing to do with us, with you, or with your mail server.  
This was a completely distinct machine. (Some people appear to be  
under the mistaken impression that the problems sprang from their  
personal mail servers, so I thought it would be best to clear that up.)

An anti-spam blacklisting company named Spamhaus decided to blacklist  
every since address hosted by the hosting company, despite the fact  
that this includes several hundred innocent machines. If you received  
no mail from Project Wombat beginning on roughly December 26 and  
ending now, then your mail server has the Spamhaus blacklist  
installed, and had rejected all messages from the list, probably to  
the point where your subscription was disabled.

We are now on a new server. The new server has not been blacklisted,  
and is unlikely to ever be so.

Anyone having problems beyond this point should contact me directly.

-John Franklin