A few issues have come to a head recently so I may as well e-mail you about all of them in one go...
1. Wiki Spamming issues Sadly those ``people'' are now able to spoof sign-ups to our Wiki sites in order to make changes to them. As there is no current way to moderate the Wikis (we are of the opinion that doing so would deter legitimate contributions from being made) we have had to temporarily make them all read-only whilst we sort the situation out. I hope that we will be able to come up with a solution soon. 2. Server plans For some time now it has been evident to me that I have a *very* small amount of free time in which to support AGRIP, AGDev and the other stuff I do. This concerns me because all of this stuff relies on the proper functioning of (a) my 'net connection and (b) my server, oblique, upon which all of this stuff lives. Because I no longer live at home, it is impractical to travel there on the spur of the moment to fix problems that may arise (not that I'm expecting any, but things tend to go wrong unexpectedly). Because the 'net connection is uncapped (mainly for server use), it is both slow (512K down, 256K up) and expensive and it is not reasonable for my parents to suffer with this any longer. For this reason, I have started renting a virtual server with features very comparable (in some cases favourable) to oblique and a highly suitable 'net connection. The idea is that if anything in the datacentre goes wrong, there will be a team of people paid to fix it and thus the turnaround on such issues will be faster and of much less stress and personal expense to the users of oblique and myself. I am planning to start moving services off oblique onto this new box as soon as I have satisfied myself that it is capable and reliable enough. Most of you should notice no difference whatsoever. 2a. AGDev Forum Problems Having said the above, there are a number of security and support concerns about the web forum for the main AGDev list. It is written in PHP (the only language used to write fora capable of talking to a mailing list, as far as I can tell). This poses numerous technical, resource and security difficulties. I am currently doubtful that it could continue to operate on the new server. If people want to continue using it, then we may be able to find a workaround -- possibly involving running it on another host (like oblique, which will still be in use). Please let me know if this is the case. --- Thanks for your time in listening to this. I am hopeful that we'll find an answer to the Wiki problem soon and that the proposed server changes will enable us all to be more productive in future. If you have any questions, feel free to reply to this thread or mail me using my personal address (the one this message came from). best regards, -- Matthew T. Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ AGRIP-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.agrip.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/agrip-discuss
