[Linux-aus] LUV needs volunteers

[Lyndsey Jackson]

Ten bucks and a member gets a tax benefit seems like a good deal to me.

I love tax deductions tho

Am I allowed to reply to this? I don't know the rules

Lyndsey

On Sat, Jul 2, 2022, 2:27 PM Tim via linux-aus <linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au>
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> --
>> My Main Blog         http://etbe.coker.com.au/
>> My Documents Blog    http://doc.coker.com.au/
>>
>>
>>
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