From: Horse (horse@darkstar.uk.net)
Date: Mon Apr 25 2005 - 00:23:29 BST
Hi Folks
This is going out to both the moq_discuss and moq_focus mailing lists.
We have a minor situation about to occur w.r.t moq.or and the mailing lists - a bit of
background first.
The company that was hosting moq.org and the lists was bought out a few weeks ago
and as a result the status of moq.org was reviewed. As we were getting hosted for a
very reasonable rate it was fairly obvious that this would change. I had a talk with the
new owner and left the situation in his hands such that he would look into putting a
package together to include hosting and lists. That was a few weeks back and I've yet to
hear what's happening.
One of the things discussed was that the server that runs the mailing lists was due to be
decommissioned on or around 1st May - in about a weeks time or so.
While all this has been going I've been doing some research into alternative means of
hosting both the site and the lists and now have a reasonable idea of what's involved.
Hosting the site isn't a big problem - although I do want to make sure that it remains
independent and ad-free - but getting external hosting for the lists is more of a problem.
The cost to run lists the way we currently do is somewhat prohibitive using a typical list
hosting company so I'm planning to run the lists myself using a server which I'm
currently in the middle of building.
For the techies among you this will involve building a Linux server (probably Debian)
and installing the necessary software(Apache, Sendmail, Mailman etc.), upgrading and
expanding the firewall, integrating into my network and a host of other tasks.
Anyway, what this all means is that I'm assuming the current server will be shut down on
1st May (unless I hear otherwise and I'll inform you if this is the case) so I'll have to shut
the list down on Friday 29th April. I'm shutting down a bit before as I want to ensure that
I can retrieve the archives, get a list of the current membership etc. and generally make
sure that I have everything I want before it goes south.
Between now and then I will be making a start with the above mentioned server but I
don't expect to have it running in time to immediately switch over. Hopefully the lists
won't be down for too long and I will try and get info out as and when I can to let you
know what's happening.
Any conversations currenly ongoing should take the above into account and aim to
finish up (or suspend for a time) by approximately Midnight (UK time) Friday 29th April.
That's all for now folks, I'll get some more info to you during the week but please don't
innundate me with questions as I would prefer to spend what time I have working on the
new system.
The website isn't due to go anywhere for a bit but again I'm not sure what's happening
yet so I'll let you know as and when I get new info.
See ya
Horse
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