On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Justin M. Kuntz wrote: Hello Justin,
> I think the mailing list is down again along with the solucorp web site. DNS, the Website and Mail all run on one box. I think Jacques runs this machine with the vserver patches, so it is probably a good long-term testbed aswell;--and very useful in the debugging process. If you urgently need source, I have a hand-maintained mirror of the important stuff that /try/ to keep up-to-date: http://mirrors.paul.sladen.org/ftp.solucorp.qc.ca/pub/vserver/ > I was wondering how many people would be in favor of switching to a > yahoo groups forum. I'm going to take a stab here and say, ``pretty few in-favour''. > Surely this would be less work for Jaques to manage, and probably be > more reliable in the end. On the other hand. How do you rate your chances of being able to get it *fixed*, when it *did* go wrong. Think big, faceless company here. The classic one I always hear about is when the ``maintainer'' disappears and nobody can authorise new members, or recover the membership list; and they have to start again. (I now host half-a-dozen lists that were formerly Yahoo/Smartgroups). How many Free Software projects or semi-competently-run mailing lists to do see using Yahoo like setups?... Think about the reasons why-- The advertising is annoying, but it's certainly not the most important reason. > generate some more publicity for vserver to use a more standard Yahoo > Groups approach. I'm interested at why you think that de-centralising the components of the project, or moving a > I've tried mailing Jaques, but his mail recently bounced also. It is a little unfortunate that there isn't an MX-backup for `solucorp.qc.ca'; perhaps you could try re-sending it or altering your MTA configuration so that it doesn't give up after one go. -Paul -- Nottingham, GB
