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==== October ==== | |||
* '''October 24, 2026''', ''Upper Valley VT/NH Musings'' (Dave Celone): [https://uppervalleyvtnh.substack.com/p/upper-valleys-listserv-superstars "Upper Valley's LISTSERV Superstars"]<br />How volunteers formed UVLists to keep 38 town email lists running after Vital Communities, and what subscribers need to do during the move. | * '''October 24, 2026''', ''Upper Valley VT/NH Musings'' (Dave Celone): [https://uppervalleyvtnh.substack.com/p/upper-valleys-listserv-superstars "Upper Valley's LISTSERV Superstars"]<br />How volunteers formed UVLists to keep 38 town email lists running after Vital Communities, and what subscribers need to do during the move. | ||
* '''October 8, 2026''', ''The Vermont Standard'' (Erin Scott): [https://vermontstandard-vt.newsmemory.com/?publink=24f56b610_13522b4 "Upper Valley town listservs to continue under new nonprofit"]<br />Covers UVLists' October 1 agreement with Vital Communities to take over the 38 town lists, which move to the uvlists.org domain but otherwise work much as before. | |||
* '''October 2, 2026''', ''WCAX'': [https://www.wcax.com/2026/10/02/nonprofit-takes-over-popular-upper-valley-online-forum/ "Nonprofit takes over popular Upper Valley online forum"]<br />Reports that UVLists will take over the Upper Valley email lists from Vital Communities and keep them running as they do now. | |||
==== August ==== | |||
* '''August 27, 2026''', ''WCAX'' (Adam Sullivan): [https://www.wcax.com/2026/08/27/popular-upper-valley-online-forum-will-not-shut-down/ "Popular Upper Valley online forum will not shut down"]<br />Vital Communities drops its shutdown plan and starts working with past list managers on an independent host, the effort that became UVLists. | |||
* '''August 25, 2026''', ''Daybreak'' (Rob Gurwitt): [https://news.daybreak.news/p/daybreak-tuesday-8-25-26 "Daybreak Tuesday, 8/25/26"], item "Listservs' future still in limbo"<br />Vital Communities says it will keep hosting the town lists to give the moderators' group, now UVLists, time to organize, and is getting legal advice on sharing subscriber data. | |||
* '''August 21, 2026''', ''Daybreak'' (Rob Gurwitt): [https://news.daybreak.news/p/update-on-the-listservs-vital-communities-says-it-won-t-pull-the-plug-just-yet "Update on the Listservs: Vital Communities Says It Won't Pull the Plug Just Yet"]<br />Vital Communities keeps the town lists running past its deadline after a day of pushback, while list moderators push for another organization to take them over, the start of UVLists. | |||
* '''August 21, 2026''', ''WCAX'' (Adam Sullivan): [https://www.wcax.com/2026/08/21/upper-valley-listserv-shutdown-postponed-amid-community-pushback/ "Upper Valley LISTSERV shutdown postponed amid community pushback"]<br />Background, before UVLists formed: Vital Communities pauses its plan to shut down the 38 town lists after pushback from subscribers. | |||
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