passing the baton

Ranjit Bhatnagar · 15 Nov 2006, 22:39 · from 2006-November.txt.gz

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From: ranjit at moonmilk.com (Ranjit Bhatnagar)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:39:50 -0500
Subject: (urth) passing the baton
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References: <9c6b022b0611101002u47b3ca31g67464421dadf4be0 at mail.gmail.com>
	<E595391A-DAFB-40E1-B603-B1DA86125BC5 at gmail.com>
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And you don't think you'd get sick of taking care of the mailing list
and web site after a year or two?  :)  Admittedly, it hasn't been much
work for me lately, but that's partly because I've ignored the calls
for a wiki and complaints about the poor search facilities and the
disjoint between older and newer archives!

In the short term, if you take over, I think it would be easiest if I
arrange for you to get administrative access to the listserv and web
site on the current host (dreamhost.com).  Eventually, if you wanted,
you could move it to your own host or take ownership of the account on
dreamhost.

- Ranjit


On 11/10/06, Matthew King <automatthew at gmail.com> wrote:
> Count me interested.  I've worked with Mailman, run a Linux VPS, and
> develop web apps during the day.
>
> Matthew King
>
> On Nov 10, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote:
>
> > I've been hosting the urth mailing list (formerly whorl) for ten years
> > now (!), and I'm afraid that for most of that time, I haven't been
> > able to give it the attention it deserves.  The archives are clunky
> > and the wiki project is still just a dream.  So I'd like to find a
> > successor to take over management of the list -- preferably someone
> > with the skills and interest to improve the web site, and the
> > commitment to keep the list going for another ten years at least.  If
> > you're interested, please contact me.
> >
> > - ranjit
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