On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 07:43 +1300, Andy George wrote:
> Mail server - to keep our own mailing list.  Nothing wrong with the one we 
> have already, but "it.canterbury.ac.nz" is more to do with a polytech or 
> university than a Linux Group.

unnecessary to change, the list address is well known and publicised.
The address is linux-users - pretty obvious really.

> 
> DNS Server - to keep and maintain our own domain name for the above (and 
> anything else we wanna throw in there...  like a...
> 

we have our own domain, see my previous mail. Its DNS is sorted.

> IRCD - cause we have, in the past, gone banging on about #CLUG channels on 
> this and that IRCD...  when irc.our.own.dns.here can sit quietly in a corner 
> and look after itself...
> 
> PHP platform - for those forums or CLUG wiki (or personal web projects) we 
> need our own apache server (and DNS thingy) for...
> 


we HAVE a wiki, on our own domain. I am not in favour of forums. others
may have other views.

> HTTPD - Hey!  It's there, we dont have one of our own, it's free... Why not...
> 

bandwidth is not free

> FTPD - See HTTPD and think File sharing...  maybe parking that example.conf 
> file for later retrieval (you all remember me harping on about THIS one, dont 
> ya)...
> If you put your mind to it, there's gotta be 101 uses for server of our own.  
> We have volunteer with Cable to run beasty...  TWO offers for adequate 
> machinery...  HUNDREDS of CLUG users who are Itching to try their hand 
> (supervised, of course) at making something go...

whats wrong with the machine you already have access to? (horse)

or your own computer.

I'll say again we cannot put a box up with everyone having root access
to "try stuff out". However horse has httpd if you want stuff hosted.

> 
> Whats left?  What else do we need?
> 

actually nothing at this point, IMHO it is all attended to.

> 
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Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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