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@pfaffman Haha, yes. We’re not 100% out of the woods yet though, even if IT says ok: it has to be approved at the tippety-top (by the university board) as an official communication channel first. Fortunately, we got the Natural Sciences Department on board big time, and they’ve been pushing it through the hoops.
I’m quite proud to have been able to run these pilot instances - not many non-IT-department people would have been able to do so (within the necessary security policies, that is). The Natural Sciences people consistently refer to it as “Astro-Discourse” (I’m at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics) 
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