ADMIN: turning down our servers

Ken Moffat kmoffat at modizzle.net
Tue Sep 20 06:38:32 PDT 2011


I like this idea. Times have certainly changed.

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Ken Moffat
(from a Droid X)
On Sep 20, 2011 6:11 AM, "Doug Hunley" <doug.hunley at gmail.com> wrote:
> It would not disappear completely. The list would simply live on as a
> Google Group (which functions as both an online forum and an email
> list). It's just the infrastructure (and its monthly bill) that is
> going away.
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 04:07, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Doug Hunley <doug.hunley at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>> All:
>>> It has become apparent that the Linux SxS, while still a great
>>> community, isn't really as thriving as it once was. Our NNTP server
>>
>>>
>>> I'm targeting Nov 1 as the day of infamy
>>
>> I'm sorry to see this list go. It is quite different from every other
>> I know. Maybe not very high traffic, but so what? Some threads were
>> ostensibly off topic, but that was not a sign of the community
>> inability to address technical issues, but rather the contrary. There
>> was something aristocratic about it that should be preserved, and will
>> probably be missed. Compare with thriving lists where sight-impaired
>> people are lead by vision-challenged persons at the sound of the sudo
>> mantra...
>>
>> Ah well...
>>
>> The best, for everyone.
>>
>> Jorge Almeida
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