File spoon-archives/marxism-transition.archive/marxism-transition_1998/marxism-transition.9805, message 2


Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 17:39:35 -0600
From: Hans Ehrbar <ehrbar-AT-keynes.econ.utah.edu>
Subject: Status report



I have taken a crash course in unix system administration
and have now two debian linux workstations in my office.
They are both a few years old and I am setting them up so
that they both always have up-to-date information on them.
If one goes down the other can take over and you will hardly
even notice.

Majordomo seems to work on them, I still have more testing
to do.  I will transplant marxism-news first, and when
things work out open it for the other lists, perhaps towards
the end of this week.  I am already accepting subscribers
for marxism-ezines (which I hope will receive articles from
left publications), and if you subscribe now you are helping
me testing it.  There are two ways to subscribe: either send
the message

subscribe marxism-ezines

or

subscribe marxism-ezines-digest

to majordomo-AT-lists.econ.utah.edu

or you can send a message which simply says subscribe

to

to marxism-ezines-request-AT-lists.econ.utah.edu

or

marxism-ezines-digest-request-AT-lists.econ.utah.edu


This is still experimental, I haven't tried it all out yet,
but this is how it is set up.



Initially the who command and the other commands will be
publicly available.


I will need your cooperation on three levels:

(1) a governing body discussing the overall policies of the
Utah marxism space.  I suggest that we take nominations from
the members of the lists involved.

(2) volunteers to do routine help with subscribing and
unsubscribing and approval of posts to marxism-news etc.
(This can be done from your home computer but if you prefer
you may telnet into the utah workstations for that.)

(3) programmers who help me set up the workstations better,
make them secure against breakins, and to automatically deal
with bad addresses, spam attacks, to customize our lists
for our special needs, and to build the infrastructure
for a decentralized network of list servers.


Hans E.


   

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