26 Jul 2001 11:05
We're back!
Well, that was fun. After all the problems with heat, memory, and network cards - one of the HDDs died. It's under warranty, but that doesn't help us any. Oh well. So, I took the money we had collected and spent it on a new NIC and a 30GB HDD. I also completely reinstalled the software on the server, making it much more stable and less prone to attacks. Besides, SuSE 7.2 has a nice update utility for fixing those nasty security holes easily. So, after much ado we are back on-line. We are now using ezmlm as our mailing list manager. Mailman was a pain in many respects - part of the HDD crash was it's thrashing every min to send mail and such. Also, mailman was not dealing with bounces at all. So, I figure if ezmlm is good enough for bugtraq - it's good enough for us. It's not completely set up right now. There is still a web front-end I'm working on and a few other things. Most important is that we have a list now, rather than later. Also, posting is NOT limited to just subscribers at this time. That will be turned back on mainly for the anti-spam feature as soon as I get it working. But, in the mean time all is well. For more information on how ezmlm works, send a message to alg-info@... - you will get back all the commands. Let me know if you have any problems. -Carl caperry@... <- when the ISDN line works - &**^&%$$# bell
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