Box-Admins February 2005

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List Reply-To: address
by Ken Causey 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Frank Shearar has requested that the lists specify the list address as the Reply-To: address of outgoing messages much like it is on squeak-dev. Just passing along his request. Ken

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Some List Issues
by Ken Causey 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

I wasn't sure where to send this but at least for now this seems like the right location for meta-discussion. 1. As has been noted the list WWW archives cannot be created before the list has received at least one message. A minor issue perhaps but we might want to encourage new list owners to get things started ASAP with a starting message. 2. The archives do not include attachments. I think this will be a problem for many of our lists. Ken

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What are we here for?
by Ken Causey 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

I'm primarily sending this email to see what everyone thinks about setting aliases like webmaster(a)map1.squeakfoundation.org to point to this list. The idea being that one of our primary functions is to repond to support requests. We then have the choice of trying to communicate to everyone the right way to contact us or to try to conform to everyone's existing proclivities. I vote for conforming. However it should be noted that that is asking for LOTS of spam. Now that doesn't bother me because my system should handle it OK. However I'm not sure everyone feels the same. Secondly what does everyone see as the appropriate goals/function of this group? 1. Make sure the functionality provided by 'the box' keeps working. 2. Be receptive to requests for hosting other services. 3. Be prepared to emulate public radio personell and periodically beg for money (might have to be in the US to get this one). That's just some thoughts of mine (and stolen from Cees). What does everyone else think? Ken P.S. I should probably also send out an email explaining the small number of policies that Gran and Cees and I have been following in the past. I'll work on that in a moment.

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New discuss.squeakfoundation.org List Server
by Ken Causey 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

I've setup a simple page linking to the public lists hosted on the new list server so far at http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/ . I think I have all of these setup now so that the archives will be updated as each new message is received. Ken

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Ignore
by Ken Causey 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Sorry, sending this to test that www archiving is triggered on message reception. Ken

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Some existing policies
by Ken Causey 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

This is for those of us with root access to box1.squeakfoundation.org: If you look in root's home directory you will find a couple of files in amongst the detritus. You should note ~/Log and ~/Readme. ~/Readme is meant to include information that might be needed by someone needing to adjust a service they did not orignally setup. For example there is some information in there about the setup of the BFAV server. Most important is the ~/Log file. Whenever you do anything that could affect other people you should add an entry to this file. This includes installing and removing packages, adding accounts, etc. Its hard to say where to draw the line on this but hopefully we can all figure it out. If you take a look at this file you can get an idea of how we've used that in the past and the preferred format. You will also find another file I created recently at ~/Information. Probably this should be in ~/Readme but I wanted somewhere to record the hostname and IP address of the old server because I never could seem to remember it. There should probably be more and I may even be forgetting something. I guess in general if you are uncertain then ask. Ken

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