On 23 Sep 2002, Bruce Dawson wrote: > Yes, my company has been sponsoring the gnhlug and centralug domain > names since nearly day-1. And more recently, the web sites, and even > more recently, the mailing lists.
That's great - and I'm certainly not proposing any change to that in any way. > What do you propose that mailing list to be named? And what would its > purpose be? The name isn't really that important. gnhlug-registrar or something like that would work fine. The purpose is strictly to deal with mail from registrars and to handle mail-from methods of changing. Here's an example scenario: You're on vacation. There's a DNS problem that completely screws things up. You're the only one who can make changes to the whois DB, so gnhlug mailing lists are SOL until you get back. If this were a mailing list, whoever's subbed to the registrar list could make a change to point to a different nameserver (that they set up in the interim) and host records from there until you get back and can fix whatever went wrong. As far as network solutions is concerned, you are the sole owner of that record and are the only person who can make changes. > I reject about 3 spams a day to that list. I (and quite a few others) > would immediately unsubscribe from that list if spam were permitted. I > can set the centralug mailing list that way if you want (and I'll make > you and Ed be the moderator, but I'll personally unsubscribe from it at > the first sign of spam). Please don't :) I was simply suggesting a different method, not one that I like. > I'm not sure what you mean by webmail (can you give me an example)? Just > a forewarning - I'm not going to put any package that doesn't run on > Linux on the server shared by gnhlug. This is all so that whoever needs it can access the email incoming to the registered address on the registrar's whois record. It makes no difference whether it's a webmail account or a list or even some group imap account somewhere. The goal is to simply give access to the incoming email that is registered as the tech/admin contact at netsol. Anyone can spoof a from address to the registered account, but there's usually something unique in the message that's returned. Now, if we're not using mail-from on any of this, it's a pointless discussion, and we should figure out what is required for the other method of authentication. > > > And then: > > Change the tech/admin contacts on gnhlug.org and centralug.org > > to the new address. > > I'd prefer to run the two systems in parallel for a while first. I don't mean a new IP address here; I mean a new email address. If that was understood, and you want to run with the new email address registered as admin and not tech - or whatever, that's perfectly reasonable. I believe that the admin contact is being deprecated, so that's something we'll want to look out for. > Note that I'm more than willing to point the domain names to other > servers that are willing to host the sites, but I need to be sure that > they're going to represent the group in the light the group wants to be > represented in. (For instance, we can afford it, we control if/any ads > placed on it, and its linux based.) Not interested in this. I think codemeta's hosting of the gnhlug domain is rock solid. The only time we should discuss this is if, for some reason, you can't host it any longer.. Ben -- Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness _______________________________________________ Gnhlug-org mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org
