Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] new LAD host ? [was:Re: lad archive down]
From: douglas irving repetto (douglas_AT_music.columbia.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 17:42:39 EEST
hi,
whatever you all decide is fine with me.
just let me know and i'll set up the majordomo list. at the same time,
someone should probably shut down the old list, or at least notify
someone who can point people to the new list so that we don't end up
with two lists running in parallel...
ssh2 access is no problem.
douglas
Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
>
> hello douglas, hello LAD folk.
>
> [douglas sent the following offer to me off-list]
>
> douglas irving repetto wrote:
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > i can host the LAD list on the very stable server music.columbia.edu
> > (majordomo) and donate web space, if needed. i would prefer not to take
> > over list maintenance though. i already run too many other lists! let me
> > know.
> >
> > douglas
>
> thanks a lot for your offer.
> sounds good to me. as i said, i would be willing to take over
> maintenance, provided that i can have ssh access to the server.
>
> otoh, erik steffl suggested going to sourceforge.
> while i have absolutely nothing against them, i don't feel the urge
> to host everything that's remotely open-source on sourceforge - what
> if va linux drops out of business ?
> plus they seem to be somewhat slow to respond to problem reports (no
> wonder given the number of projects they host - i really don't blame
> them, they're providing a great service).
> still, a university server like music.columbia.edu would be my
> preference.
>
> if nobody objects, we could start migrating rsn.
>
> regards,
>
> jörn
>
> > Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
> > >
> > > Benno Senoner wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> > > > > Kai Vehmanen wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Xavier Hosxe just notified me that the LAD web archive wasn't working.
> > > > > > It seems that it has been down ever since 19.3.2001 until 6.4.2001. The
> > > > > > error messages have gone to linux-audio-dev-owner, so I haven't even
> > > > > > noticed the problem. Oh well, I just manually bounced the lost messages
> > > > > > from my personal mailbox to the archive so no messages are lost... Big
> > > > > > thanks to Xavier for the notification.
> > > > >
> > > > > speaking of owner-linux-audio-dev, mr. burton, where are you ???
> > > > >
> > > > > seems he has dropped off the net entirely. keep your fingers crossed
> > > > > that nothing happens to majordomo.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > BTW: I (and many other LADers) would sleep more comfortably if at least a few
> > > > of the (active) members has access to the list of email addresses, just in case
> > > > something should go wrong.
> > > >
> > > > You know building communities is not easy, and loosing these great people on
> > > > the list would be really sad.
> > > >
> > > > Can someone try to contact the list maintainer in order to try to work out
> > > > something ?
> > >
> > > i have been trying to do so for quite some time. nothing.
> > > what i have is the email address of the guy who operates
> > > ginette.musique.umontreal.ca, and he has been so kind as to send me
> > > a list of LAD email addresses. if mr. burton turns out to be
> > > digitally dead, maybe we should ask him to hand over the list
> > > ownership to someone else, possibly one of us...
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jörn Nettingsmeier
> > > home://Kurfürstenstr.49.45138.Essen.Germany
> > > phone://+49.201.491621
> > > http://www.folkwang-hochschule.de/~nettings/
> > > http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/
> >
> > --
> > douglas irving repetto
> > http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas
> > http://shoko.calarts.edu/musicdsp
> > http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/dorkbotnyc
>
> --
> Jörn Nettingsmeier
> home://Kurfürstenstr.49.45138.Essen.Germany
> phone://+49.201.491621
> http://www.folkwang-hochschule.de/~nettings/
> http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/
--
douglas irving repetto
http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas
http://shoko.calarts.edu/musicdsp
http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/dorkbotnyc
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