[Linux-aus] LUV needs volunteers

[Tim]

I'm happy to offer the same 'service' that I offer PLUG, regarding domain
registrations to any Australian Linux/Unix user group. I'll register the
domain through my business wholesale account, and that way it's always
automatically renewed and paid and I just invoice the LUG the cost of the
domain (rounded up to the nearest dollar, so $10, so I can tell the ATO I
am /trying/ to make a profit). Many years ago we had this recurring issue
with PLUG domains expiring due to there not being a PLUG credit card to
have automatic renewals setup on, and just having an individual put their
card on the line was a little more than people wanted. At one point we used
prepaid cards, but they expire and also people forget to topup the funds.

As long as the LUG eventually pays the invoice, I'm not concerned, and I
can pester them once a month until it's paid. For many years I just donated
the cost of PLUG's domain instead of bothering with invoicing, but I no
longer make money with my business, it's just there to give non-profits
access to cheap domains and webhosting.

Who am I to offer this? Many many many moons ago I was the PLUG president,
technically still am a PLUG system admin, and now my involvement is mostly
just lurking as having a family doesn't leave as much free time (and I'm
rural to Perth).

Regards

Tim

On Sat, 2 Jul 2022 at 09:55, Russell Coker via linux-aus <
linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote:

> Currently no-one is reading the LUV president email.  Email about the
> expiry
> of luv.asn.au have been going to the president mailbox since April and
> now the
> domain is suspended.  I'm CCing this email to the Linux Australia list
> because
> probably a lot of LUV members won't get this message through the LUV list
> due
> to the expired domain.
>
> The LUV committee list receives almost no email, the committee seems
> entirely
> inactive in aggregate.  Presumably Andrew Pam will renew the domain (as he
> did
> last year) after my monitoring system detected that the domain was
> suspended
> (as it did last year) due to President email not being read and it not
> being
> renewed in time.  I'm putting this in a public email because I don't want
> to
> be falsely accused of being responsible for this debacle as I was last
> year.
>
> If LUV is going to run effectively it needs someone to volunteer to read
> the
> president email.  It gets an average of 2-3 spam messages per day which is
> probably not much compared to the spam that slips through most of our spam
> filters.
>
> Most of the LUV president spam comes from the web contact form.  The
> contact
> page could be changed to not have a form for submitting a message and
> instead
> refer to a Matrix address or something, it's easy to change.  While I've
> generally given up on all LUV sysadmin tasks than the minimum needed to
> keep
> things running I would be happy to change the contact page to something
> that
> will get a response for people who want information (IE anything other
> than
> going to a mailbox that hasn't been read since early September 2021).
>
> Finally one thing that should be considered is moving the LUV mailing
> lists to
> the Linux Australia server.  The latest version of Mailman is a major pain
> to
> run and the older version is deprecated.  It doesn't seem likely that
> anyone
> will volunteer to give the LUV mailing lists the attention that's needed
> to
> get them running properly and the LA lists are maintained properly.
>
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