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Re: new linux-il website



On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Ira Abramov wrote:

> 
> Hi Jonathan!
> 
> seeing that the website has been a bit dormant lately, and that a
> serious facelift was needed, I have initiated some work together with
> other members of the list to build a brand new site, with a lot more
> functionality, dynamic content and bandwidth.

As a matter of courtesy you should contact Alex Dubrovsky about this.

> 
> Naturally We can not expect TclTek to flex itself to provide for all the
> demands of setups and configurations of such a machine, nor for the
> bandwidth we hope to attract.  To that end we now have a dedicated
> machine up with a big FTP mirror and various tools installed, it's
> really going well, slowly blowing up to a mini portal :-)
> 
> At this point we'd like to switch over the handling of the domain
> (DNS) over to that new machine, so we can add and change names more
> dynamicly etc, and take the burdon of managing the mail and remote
> access security from you. let's synchronise on that and I'll send out a
> request to isoc for the DNS transfer when it's all ready at your end.
> 
> what I'll need from you:
> * please change www.linux.org.il, linux.org.il to point at
>   192.116.202.69

Done.

> * same for ftp (not functioning yet, but will be in an hour or two)

Done.

> * please tell me what forwards exist now for the domain under qmail, or
>   rather send me a tarball of the directory (we're using Qmail here too 
>   ofcource), and once it's set up we'll move the MX pointer too.

Done.

> * finally, when it's all working, we'll send the request to Isoc.org.il

I don't agree to this yet. I want to see considerable concensus before
moving the domain. Let's see how you do with the new site first and what
the list has to say about it.

> 
> I'd like to thank you very much for all the support you gave the website
> for the past 3 years! I know that the constant stream of 1-month
> webmasters and the security headaches were not fun :-)

I see you learned to lick asses when you were in the US. Good for you!

> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Ira Abramov
> IGLU
> 
> -- 
> Ira Abramov       Linux enthusiast and Tshirt collector  
> This message was RFC 1855 compliant. Practice safe hex.
> 

Regards,

 - yba

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