[Novalug] [Dclug] Problems with Tux

Charles R. Kiss charles@kissbrothers.com
Thu Aug 28 20:18:23 EDT 2014


Hi everyone,

I guess it's time to give up.  Sorry I couldn't make things work out better. I am also a resident of Ohio, I moved about a month ago.

I'm here in DC at the moment, maybe we can get together, idk.

Charles

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---- David Cafaro wrote ----

>Hello Alan,
>
>I was on the second too last Tux board and helped organize the last elections for the newest and last board.
>
>I've gone ahead and forwarded your email to the last contact addresses I had for the last board.  I don't know what is required to shutdown Tux.org (or if anyone is interested in taking on the daunting task of revitalizing the non-profit part).
>
>Regarding the mailing list, I believe you should try emailing the Tux Admin ( tux-admins  @   calypso.tux.org ) group regarding the list admin stuff.
>
>Best of luck,
>David
>
>On Aug 28, 2014, at 5:16 PM, Alan McConnell wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>> 
>> I will mention two.  First:  I have been the 'mailman' administrator
>> for an E-list called linux-pe for over a decade.  I started it way
>> back when, when Linux was struggling, and people needed -- or so
>> we then thought -- to be rallied in Linux's defense.  Those days
>> are happily long gone.
>> 
>> So several weeks ago, I sent out a message on   linux-pe, asking
>> if anyone felt it was useful.  I got a couple of kind messages,
>> but no one had further interest.   So I now wish to close it down.
>> To that end I sent an E-mail to David Lesher.   No response.
>> After a week I sent a message to Przemek K.  No response.  I
>> don't know what further to do.  I would send requests to Greg
>> Pryzby, if I knew his E-address.  Ditto to David Niemi.  Ditto
>> to Sam Chessman.
>> 
>> To forestall a possible objection:  I could, as administrator,
>> log in, and simply wipe the list of members clear.  But that
>> would not take care of the barrage of spam that linux-pe gets.
>> I don't want to have to log in to mailman every week and delete
>> a bunch of messages that have piled up.  I believe that someone
>> with root privileges has to do that, to make sure that all
>> incoming posts from around the world get directed to /dev/null.
>> 
>> Perhaps this open message will arouse some honcho somewhere;  I
>> hope so.
>> 
>> Second:  tux.org is still a corporation.  It hasn't had elections
>> in many years.  I worry that someone In Authority, with an animus
>> against Linux, or activities on these Lists, will harass the
>> organization, making trouble for our friends who, years ago,
>> signed the incorporation papers.  I urge that steps be taken
>> now to shut down this corporation in an orderly manner.  I
>> once ran an LLC, and we shut down as prescribed by law.  I
>> hope that the People in Charge, or who were last In Charge,
>> will take some simple steps.
>> 
>> Best wishes to all,
>> 
>> Alan
>> 
>> -- 
>> Alan McConnell :  http://globaltap.com/~alan/
>>        It is difficult to get a man to understand something when 
>>        his income depends on his not understanding it.
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