On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 03:45:42PM +0000, Paul Sladen wrote: > 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''.
"Things That Go Up And Down On A Rhythmic Basis" (Jun 13,1999) [http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990613] I would add Jacques pages/mailing list without hesitating, but, damn I hate those YaHoo groups ... 8-) so my vote goes to Jacques *G*, so keep up the -good- work! > > 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. yup! > 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). yup! > 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. nope! > > 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. It should not be a problem to setup a backup mailserver somewhere, I think many people (including myself) are more than willing to do something like this (hint!) best, Herbert > > -Paul > -- > Nottingham, GB >
