Here is something I've noticed lately: when I want to look for tracesof some recent or just-breaking piece of news, such as IPSCa's utterfailure or important potential Solaris licensingchanges , I no longer bothertrying Google or other general search engines; instead, I go to Twitterand search there. And it works. There's a certain amount of noise in theresult but also a lot of signal, more than I could easily get otherwise.

Partly I think that this is because

Way back in the beginning of time, or at least when I arrived here , we had a rather old mail systemconfiguration that was very much an artifactof its time. In other words, it desperately needed to be modernized andreplaced. And replace it we did, winding up with our current mailsystem .

There are two ways to describe how we planned the migration from the oldsystem to the new one. Let me write up the nice one first:

There are at least two possible approaches you can take