[theforum] [Sysadmin] Any evolt services still left on the raq?

Dean Mah dmah at shaw.ca
Sun Dec 4 12:25:22 CST 2005


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Martin wrote:
> Dean wrote:
> 
> 
>>members.evolt.org is still there.  The mail forwarding and the web  
>>site
>>redirection runs there.
>>
>>Dean
>>
>>Martin Burns wrote:
>>
>>>Have we migrated all of evolt's services off the box that Mike and I
>>>pay for at Rackshack/EV1
> 
> 
> OK, how much work is involved in moving this last bit off?
> 
> for theforum - how long are we proposing to support historic MEO  
> accounts? We closed MEO on March 15th 2003, so have been supporting  
> it after closure for probably as long as it was open. I'm guessing  
> (hoping?) that once we're on tempest, we won't be moving again for a  
> *good long* time, so won't need any further maintenance.
> 
> Me, I'm entirely ambivalent about it, but it just seems a bit of a  
> loose end that we haven't thought about.
> 
> Cheers
> Martin

It wouldn't be difficult at all to move the services: copy the database,
move the script, setup qmail and Apache, change the DNS record.

The question is, whether or not that we want to continue doing it.  I'm
not sure how much use these services get and I would suspect that most
of the e-mail that currently goes through the system is spam.

Dean
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