<div dir="auto">Ten bucks and a member gets a tax benefit seems like a good deal to me. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I love tax deductions tho </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Am I allowed to reply to this? I don't know the rules </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Lyndsey </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 2, 2022, 2:27 PM Tim via linux-aus <<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Tim<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 2 Jul 2022 at 09:55, Russell Coker via linux-aus <<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Currently no-one is reading the LUV president email. Email about the expiry <br>
of <a href="http://luv.asn.au" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">luv.asn.au</a> have been going to the president mailbox since April and now the <br>
domain is suspended. I'm CCing this email to the Linux Australia list because <br>
probably a lot of LUV members won't get this message through the LUV list due <br>
to the expired domain.<br>
<br>
The LUV committee list receives almost no email, the committee seems entirely <br>
inactive in aggregate. Presumably Andrew Pam will renew the domain (as he did <br>
last year) after my monitoring system detected that the domain was suspended <br>
(as it did last year) due to President email not being read and it not being <br>
renewed in time. I'm putting this in a public email because I don't want to <br>
be falsely accused of being responsible for this debacle as I was last year.<br>
<br>
If LUV is going to run effectively it needs someone to volunteer to read the <br>
president email. It gets an average of 2-3 spam messages per day which is <br>
probably not much compared to the spam that slips through most of our spam <br>
filters.<br>
<br>
Most of the LUV president spam comes from the web contact form. The contact <br>
page could be changed to not have a form for submitting a message and instead <br>
refer to a Matrix address or something, it's easy to change. While I've <br>
generally given up on all LUV sysadmin tasks than the minimum needed to keep <br>
things running I would be happy to change the contact page to something that <br>
will get a response for people who want information (IE anything other than <br>
going to a mailbox that hasn't been read since early September 2021).<br>
<br>
Finally one thing that should be considered is moving the LUV mailing lists to <br>
the Linux Australia server. The latest version of Mailman is a major pain to <br>
run and the older version is deprecated. It doesn't seem likely that anyone <br>
will volunteer to give the LUV mailing lists the attention that's needed to <br>
get them running properly and the LA lists are maintained properly.<br>
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