Hello Everyone,
It's been a long time. we're all older and greyer I'm sure.
Indeed... I have a family now, and less and less free time, I sometimes miss the days when I had whole weekends free for my hobbies...
I appointed a new moderator today, thanks [https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showuser=21713 varti] for being volunteered.
I also amended the sign-up/validation process to hopefully make it easier for someone to become a member. Even the validation forums had become full of spam. Varti kindly cleaned a lot of it out, I only did the first four pages, Varti did the other 20-ish!
I'd like some other active members to volunteer to be moderators too. And if people can second their appointment, promote someone to be an admin as well.
Thank you for appointing me, I like to help here whenever possible.
One problem we have is that there doesn't appear to be anyone with a shell account on the server, or ftp access to remove some of the dodgy files which have been put onto the server when security was breached. I am hoping we can get that and make things better.
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I had a brief exchange of messages with offroadgeek and he seemed amenable to giving someone the ftp access needed.
That's great to hear!
I'll try and spin another whole forum archive using httrack and post a squashfs archive with namazu free text DB like I once did long ago.
Please do it, we should store ASAP all the posts here so that nothing would get lost. The best thing would be to have both a public httrack dump, which can be mirrored by anyone, and private copies of the filesystem, to be stored by one or more admins.
Since you have managed to get in touch with offroad, would you please ask him if he'd continue to cover the expenses of the oesf.org domain? The domain expires next month, on 4th November. BTW I remember his post where he mentioned that he wanted to switch from Dreamhost to GoDaddy.
Varthall
