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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