I suppose it depends what one means by "all this" and "outcome" Let's see, in the beginning(?), there was the Big Bang, ... and eventually we have the heat death of the universe.
In the meantime, among other things,
Once upon a time, all of BALUG.org stuff was hosted on DreamHost.com hosting.
In more recent years, fair bit of BALUG.org stuff has been hosted elsewhere, however everything for (among others) the domains themselves of balug.org, www.balug.org, and lists.balug.org, notably including the primary and most of the production BALUG web pages, and BALUG's lists, remained hosted on DreamHost.com hosting.
Anyway, that's no longer the case. Absolutely nothing of BALUG.org is hosted on DreamHost.com hosting any more. DreamHost.com freedom (from) day arrived to BALUG.org early this past Monday. Since then we are - and shall remain, 100% free of DreamHost. Yippie! ... (and *finally*).
Oh, and yes, this was all accomplished with relatively minimal pain/annoyance to the well over 800 list subscribers BALUG has. Except for passwords, all user settings/preferences were preserved and moved over, and there's use of transitional domain temp.balug.org, which will again settle to lists.balug.org ... but not (fully) there quite yet.
And yes, we have our archives ... at least what was on DreamHost.com that they'd not irretrievably lost earlier ... plus of course the newer postings.
But .. this doesn't seem all that much like a test post? ;-)
From: aaronco36 aaronco36@SDF.ORG Subject: Re: [BALUG-Test] Oooh, ... archive tests ... :-) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 20:41:13 +0000 (UTC)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 01:39:58 -0700 From: "Michael Paoli" Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu To: BALUG-Test balug-test@temp.balug.org Subject: [BALUG-Test] Oooh, ... archive tests ... :-)
So ... since some while (week(s)?) back, I changed the archiving of BALUG-Test from (default of) monthly, to yearly, that's all fine and good *except* ... archiving looks a bit funky ... notably changing that setting doesn't retroactively change what's already been archived, so, e.g. on https://temp.balug.org/pipermail/balug-test/ we see something that looks approximatley like: Archive ... August 2017: ... July 2017: ... 2017: ...
... ...
Am wondering what the TL;DR of all this is, i.e., the summarized outcome and current status of all Michael P's efforts here?