ADMIN: list outage/future direction/call for help

[Douglas J Hunley]

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The list outage was caused by my ISP having to route my entire neighborhood 
through a new head-end router. They were upgrading our services (more 
bandwidth!) and need to cut everyone over which caused us to get a completely 
different IP address.
I'm currently working w/ David Bandel to move the SxS mail host to a static IP 
machine that he has offered to host for us. Expect the mail to slowly be 
cut-over to him over the next few weeks. This should cut down on list outages 
greatly! (unless panama drops off the net <g>)

Once the mail transition takes place, the only service that remains to be 
moved elsewhere is the news groups. As such, I'm gonna ask here for a 
volunteer to host our news server. There's only 2 stipulations:
1) you have to have a static IP
2) you can't already be hosting one of our other services

The news server is truly a set-it-and-forget-it operation. Any takers?

As for future directions.. well, let's kick it around shall we? We're almost 
done with the site re-org/cleanup, and once we get all the services moved off 
my crappy home connection, I plan to start advertising the site and list(s) 
all over the place (slashdot, google, etc) . I don't think we need to be tied 
to a distro. I just think we need to get our name(s) out there for the 
upcoming influx of linux newbies... there's plenty of people trying Linux for 
the first time on their desktop/laptop. And we've got the skills on this list 
to fix whatever issues they run into. We've got enough bread (distros, fields 
of interest, etc) that this list should be invaluable to the hordes of 
newbies out there... I think we just need to make ourselves a 'presence'
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Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
http://doug.hunley.homeip.net && http://www.linux-sxs.org

Programmer (n): One who makes the lies the salesman told come true.
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