Subj : The Elist service
To : Vincent Coen
From : Daniel Path
Date : Wed May 03 2023 09:45 am
Hello Vincent,
02 May 23 17:01, you wrote to All:
VC> Right well no one has expressed an interest in taking over the Elist
VC> service along with the Pi it is running on.
VC> To remind every one I will be 76 as of June 23 and my health could be
VC> better.
VC> Historically, for the previous two Elist maintainers etc, on their
VC> death the service died as well as their next of kin had no usage of
VC> the service or any other within fido land etc so could not be
VC> contacted any way.
VC> So this caused someone else to program a solution that the previous
VC> elist keeper had in fact done. What a waste of effort.
VC> I had hoped that by moving the entire operation on to a Raspberry Pi
VC> which is low power system someone (a lot younger) might have been
VC> interested in taking it over.
VC> I having been running back ups of the running system on the Pi to my
VC> primary system and in turn creating an archive of it so at least all
VC> the elements are together on a JIC (Just in case basis). Again I have
VC> not seen anyone grabbing it.
VC> So I may well transfer the service back to my primary system as a
VC> independent bbs system, if nothing else it will save me 2.5Kw
VC> electricity bill per day which in money terms works out at the moment
VC> as 0.35 pounds per day - no not a lot.
VC> IF any one might be interested in taking this service over, hopefully
VC> younger than myself please get in touch. You can use the Pi as a
VC> complete system or run it side by side of you existing bbs system if
VC> you run Linux as it uses mbse as the bbs system and the elist software
VC> is designed to use the bbs mailer and other services to run which make
VC> it fairly automated - any bugs allowed for.
VC> I will be bundling up the source code for Elist into an archive along
VC> with a manual and other documentation for historic value may
VC> be. Remember the elist system also looks after the BACKBONE.NA and
VC> BACKBONE.RPT files where the former is usable with you file manager as
VC> a list of all echos available in Fidonet. It does not hold any other
VC> nets as one one has requested such - remember the .NA file does not
VC> support the network name for each echo and any change to it would
VC> require BBS file manager software to be modified which is yet another
VC> issue.
VC> No, I am not intending to get very unwell or to die any time soon, but
VC> I have to start allowing for such.
