Subj : Re: The Elist service
To : Vincent Coen
From : Paul Hayton
Date : Sat May 06 2023 02:10 pm
On 02 May 2023 at 05:01p, Vincent Coen pondered and said...
VC> Hello All!
VC>
VC> Right well no one has expressed an interest in taking over the Elist
VC> service along with the Pi it is running on.
Hi Vincent,
Both Deon and Rob would be good resources to avail yourself of.
I am also interested in helping out in whatever way you/the guys deem helpful.
From my POV I think if there is more redundancy built into things (i.e. not just one place to submit to / more than one person is across the service and/or is able to offer it) the better.
VC> To remind every one I will be 76 as of June 23 and my health could be
VC> better.
I hope you're health is as good as it can be for many years to come good sir.
VC> Historically, for the previous two Elist maintainers etc, on their death
VC> the service died as well as their next of kin had no usage of the
VC> service or any other within fido land etc so could not be contacted any
VC> way.
Yep, good you are thinking ahead.
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
VC> it side by side of you existing bbs system if you run Linux as it uses
VC> mbse as the bbs system and the elist software is designed to use the bbs
VC> mailer and other services to run which make it fairly automated - any
VC> bugs allowed for.
I do have a spare Pi but Deon and/or Rob may well have kit (real or virtual) that could be pressed into service also.
VC> No, I am not intending to get very unwell or to die any time soon, but I
VC> have to start allowing for such.
It's good you are thinking ahead, and thank you for doing so.
Best, Paul
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