RE: [Devel] STOP THE SPAMMING!

[Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro]

  Shouldn't this list be hosted at freedesktop.org?  I'm sure they
wouldn't mind...

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 10:37 +0100, Turner, David wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden la
> > part de Steven Johnson
> > Envoyé : mercredi 17 novembre 2004 19:03
> > À : address@hidden; address@hidden
> > Objet : [Devel] STOP THE SPAMMING!
> > 
> > 
> > Dammit, who's in control of this list?
> > 
> 
> It's me and I'm sorry for the inconvenience. The problem comes down to the
> fact that I'm not the admin on the machine that hosts the FreeType server,
> and we cannot easily perform upgrades to the mailing-list system;
> 
> The real sysadmin is currently too busy to really take the time to perform
> 
> That's why we've decided to move the FreeType services to a User-Mode-Linux 
> image.
> That will allow us to get root access on the virtual server, and our host 
> sysadmin
> won't have to care much about what we do, except maybe control bandwidth.
> 
> The image is getting shape, it's based on Woody for obvious security reasons,
> but the setup is still delicate. Also, I was without an Internet connection 
> until
> the end of last week, which explains why this has been put to rest.
> 
> And believe me, I receive _far_ more spam than the mailing lists, and I want
> this thing running as soon as possible. We're probably going to migrate only
> the mail/ml services at first, then gradually move the other ones after that.
> 
> By the way, I'd welcome any help from someone who would like to be part-time
> sysadmin for the project.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> - David Turner
> - The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)
> 
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