[volunteers] (forw) [svlug] lists.svlug.org must be taken down for rebuild

[Rick Moen]

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Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 18:45:49 -0700
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
To: svlug at lists.svlug.org
Subject: [svlug] lists.svlug.org must be taken down for rebuild
Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already.

The server running this mailing list (and several others) has been 
limped along for years on an obsolete beta of GNU Mailman and an
obsolete beta of the Exim MTA, and inevitably, problems have been
developing, and in particular this Mailman version can be exploited to
subscribe fake users and to generate UCE (spam in particular ways.
It is not feasible to upgrade in place owing to some questionable
maintenance performed earlier, so it's going to be necessary to 
rebuild (at least) the server's mailign list and MTA subsystems.
Therefore, I will be shutting off the SMTP service shortly after
this message gets out to subscribers.

SVLUG has an out-of-band mailing list to discuss matters like these
on _my_ server.  Anyone who wishes to participate in regenerating
SVLUG's online operations is welcome to join, but please note that 
it is not a general LUG discussion forum.

http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/revival

  About revival    

  Private list for parties' occasional work to preserve and further
  SVLUG's operations and protect its ability to continue operating. It is
  also useful in cases when SVLUG's mailing lists are unavailable for
  whatever reason. 

  This mailing list is not an official SVLUG forum. 

If all goes well, I or someone else will send out an announcement
when/if services get restored.  I am _not_ providing any ETA, as
I'm as usual overbooked, and didn't plan on handling this on an urgent
basis (or, frankly, at all).

Be seeing you.

(This is _not_ an April Fool's Day matter.  This is a serious and
real announcement.)

-- Rick M.
   (comprising, at this point, the entire Web Team and sole SVLUG Ops guy)


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