[Linux-aus] LUV needs volunteers

[hd]

On Sat, 02 Jul 2022 11:54:50 +1000
Russell Coker via luv-main <luv-main at luv.asn.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.
> 

How many emails go into the presidents mailbox? (ie ham)
If all that is required is basic sorting and forwarding I could make
some time every couple of days to do this.
I have little knowledge of the workings of LUV, so will not be
replying to email, but deleting spam and forwarding outstanding bills to
the treasurer and other email to respective committee members does not
sound impossible...
H