2) Will plasma-gate continue to function as a web server?
So far, yes, but I'm afraid only until they discover that a (mis)configured http server may serve as an email relay (shhh). Then, only www.weizmann.ac.il will remain. Also, as I said, there have been a couple of attempts to shut down the plasma-gate web server in the past, just out of the blue. One never knows...
I am a Grace
user of way too many years to count (I forgot whether xvgr predated
xmgr or the other way around), and I would not want *that* to go down...
Well, that will go down too. At least, I'll have to find a new home for the project - there are the mailing lists, too (actually, those are the emails that were disabled for half a month; and if you think somebody bothered to inform me in advance you're deeply mistaken...), there is a bug report system coupled with the mailing list etc. Hours of work are thrown away blindly; more hours will be spend to setup the whole thing anew - instead of preparing the new version and/or fixing bugs. As a result, thousands of users (including those at Weizmann, BTW) will suffer. And don't think they ignore the community needs only. There is a mailing list related to the plasma science as well. And of course, there are dozens of researchers in the lab that have been using their @plasma-gate addresses for years (these emails appear in countless scientific publications, too), and on one nice day (which will happen soon) they will at once stop getting emails from collegues from abroad.
It's a common knowledge that security usually comes at the expense of convenience. But in this case, the price is paid to the obscurity only. This is a pity.
Regards,
Evgeny
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