The move was finalized and I've removed Rick. The people that show up and care can decide how to proceed in peace.
Dangerous G On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:41 AM Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote: > Quoting Grant Bowman (gr...@dvlug.org): > > > FYI Ian, Don, Michael, Rick and all 37 other Diablo Valley Linux Users > > Group subscribers! > > Grant, it's fantastic that you're reactivating the DVLUG meetings at > Cafe La Scala, now that the pandemic is abating. Thank you! > > > At the same time, I wish to point out a huge problem: > > > I've finalized the move to list@dvlug.org so please use only the new > > address. > > No, you really _have not_. > > "email.dvlug.org" is a DNS alias for mailgun.org, which is yet another > outsourced "free" e-mail service, similar to Yahoo Mail, Gmail, etc. > So, basically, you have, as usual, set up no infrastructure whatsoever > for DVLUG. None. All you have is outsourcing. > > What is Linux best at? It's best at Internet infrastructure. You > don't bother to even try to have DVLUG bother to do what Linux is good > for. > > You haven't "finalized the move to list@dvlug.org". You haven't > actually set up anything. You've just signed up with yet another bunch > of third-party pirates, for something the community should be doing. > > I will continue to host a DVLUG mailing list, for lots of reasons > including the here-today-gone-tomorrow nature of outsourced offerings. > Yours is, what, the third or fourth such abortive outsourcing effort? > >
