[SGVLUG] User Groups Beware (was Laptop computer)

[David Lawyer]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:26:44PM -0800, matti wrote:
> Important lessons to learn from LULA:
[snip]
> 2) Backups, backups, backups...

The most important thing to back up is the mailing list (of
subscribers).  Years ago, I wrote a script to fetch it periodically
with cron, but it doesn't seem to work anymore.  Is someone doing
this?  Should I try to do it again?  The list is useful even if
there's no mailing list server since one could put it in the To: or
Cc: of an email.

Once bitten twice shy.  We lost our mailing list when Craig shut down
sgvlug's site so it's important to never let this happen again.  I
still have the posting to that list from Craig:
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Date: Fri Apr  2 10:16:30 1999
From: zeller at zdi.net (Craig Zeller)
Subject: SGVLUG Fin
To: linux at zdi.net ("'linux at zdi.net'"), newsig at zdi.net ("'newsig at zdi.net'"), netsig at zdi.net ("'netsig at zdi.net'"), devsig at zdi.net ("'devsig at zdi.net'"), pcsig at zdi.net ("'pcsig at zdi.net'")
Reply-To: linux at zdi.net

These mailing lists were provided as a place to exchange technical
information about Linux, not as a forum for political, religious, or
sexual discussion or flame wars.

The mailing lists, web site, and my personal SGVLUG participation have now
become more of a burden than I am willing to assume.

Therefore, these mailing lists and the web site for the San Gabriel
Valley Linux Users Group will cease operation effective immediately.
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			David Lawyer