I'm not an insider, so I might get this wrong. The GTALUG mailing list and web site are hosted on a linode.com machine. It appears that the service was paid for through Chris Browne. When he died, it appears that payments stopped and the machine went dark (December 17 or perhaps a bit later). I asked linode if I could pay for the node so that it could be restarted. I told them (correctly) that I had no authority. They have temporarily started the node. This will last for one billing cycle (whatever that is) while they consider what to do. I appologize for my unauthorized intervention but the mailing list is our lifeblood. Alex is working on a replacement for the linode node.
On 2021-01-07 3:21 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
I appologize for my unauthorized intervention but the mailing list is our lifeblood.
I can't speak officially for the board/committee/whoever we call ourselves, but thank you, Hugh, for your very quick lateral thinking. It has saved us a lot of work. We'll repay any expenses, of course. The website seems back as it was - https://gtalug.org/ Thank you, thank you! Stewart
If you are looking for hosting hardware, I just put up a machine on the new Toronto FreeNet Network. I am configuring LXC containers.. and you can have a container and IP if you want for a mailing list or whatever... -steve
On 2021-01-07 3:21 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
I appologize for my unauthorized intervention but the mailing list is our lifeblood.
I can't speak officially for the board/committee/whoever we call ourselves, but thank you, Hugh, for your very quick lateral thinking. It has saved us a lot of work. We'll repay any expenses, of course.
The website seems back as it was - https://gtalug.org/
Thank you, thank you!
 Stewart
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Paying linode.com is probably the best option. I'll chip in. How much and to whom? -- William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 03:21:12AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
I'm not an insider, so I might get this wrong.
The GTALUG mailing list and web site are hosted on a linode.com machine. It appears that the service was paid for through Chris Browne. When he died, it appears that payments stopped and the machine went dark (December 17 or perhaps a bit later).
I asked linode if I could pay for the node so that it could be restarted. I told them (correctly) that I had no authority.
They have temporarily started the node. This will last for one billing cycle (whatever that is) while they consider what to do.
I appologize for my unauthorized intervention but the mailing list is our lifeblood.
Alex is working on a replacement for the linode node. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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