migration destroyed my distribution lists

[Tim Wunder (Lists)]

On 02/18/2010 12:59 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 18 February 2010 15:54:39 Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> The old lists will not be migrated in a workable fashion, as the
>>> mechanism is not the same.
>>
>> Ugh, that is really broken! The last time the distribution list mechanism
>> changed, they provided a migration tool to do the conversion. But this time
>> they even HAVE a migration tool (the Akonadi migration tool) and didn't
>> make it convert things properly? This kind of disregard to user data (and
>> configuration is data) really needs to stop (it's not the first time a KDE
>> app just ignores configuration from older versions, unfortunately).
>>
> No data is lost.  Additional functionality will come as soon as possible.  You 
> can still filter entries, of course, since I would assume that all contacts in 
> a ML will have common data somewhere.
> 

I'm confused. You say 'no data is lost' right after telling Neal he has
to rebuild his distribution list. Doesn't a distribution list count as data?

Tim
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