[Linux-aus] LUV needs volunteers

[Russell Coker]

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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