[SGVLUG] Old majordomo archive, anyone have a copy?

[James McDuffie]

On 04/18/2012 09:01 PM, Michael Proctor-Smith wrote:
> While someone on the list my have a copy of the emails from before 2005
> the current setup came about because the server where the website and
> email list died and the owner of that server was no long actively
> involved in the group.

This exactly the scenario I hope to try and eliminate (no offense Mike). 
The more I look into it, the less feasible having a hot spare instance 
of mailman is. I don't think this list needs that level of high 
availability.

Also if you read up on MX records 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record) I don't think that relying on 
them for fail-over would work too well due to the discrepancies in how 
MTAs use the MX records when they can't reach the smallest distance host.

The best solution I can come up with is thus:
1. Move mailman to a VPS somewhere
2. Have other members set up cron jobs to rsync the mailman config/user 
list/archives to their personal machines through a chrooted sftp only 
account
3. Give several others sudo access to the main machine
4. Also set up archiving to gmane.org, mail-archive.com, osdir.com, 
grokbase.com, etc
5. ? ? ?
6. Profit? [1]

On somewhat related note here is an interesting discussion of Forums vs 
Mailing lists:
http://www.freelock.com/blog/john-locke/2010-03/mailing-list-or-forum-theory

[1] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/profit