Long answer:

The rule I go by, is if you are on the list, then you can send to the list.

You received the message, so you are on the list, and therefore can reply if you want.

Short Answer:

Yes

Regards,

Luke Attard


On 8/07/2022 23:28, Lyndsey Jackson via linux-aus wrote:
Ten bucks and a member gets a tax benefit seems like a good deal to me.

I love tax deductions tho

Am I allowed to reply to this? I don't know the rules

Lyndsey

On Sat, Jul 2, 2022, 2:27 PM Tim via linux-aus <[email protected]> wrote:

    I'm happy to offer the same 'service' that I offer PLUG, regarding
    domain registrations to any Australian Linux/Unix user group. I'll
    register the domain through my business wholesale account, and
    that way it's always automatically renewed and paid and I just
    invoice the LUG the cost of the domain (rounded up to the nearest
    dollar, so $10, so I can tell the ATO I am /trying/ to make a
    profit). Many years ago we had this recurring issue with PLUG
    domains expiring due to there not being a PLUG credit card to have
    automatic renewals setup on, and just having an individual put
    their card on the line was a little more than people wanted. At
    one point we used prepaid cards, but they expire and also people
    forget to topup the funds.

    As long as the LUG eventually pays the invoice, I'm not concerned,
    and I can pester them once a month until it's paid. For many years
    I just donated the cost of PLUG's domain instead of bothering with
    invoicing, but I no longer make money with my business, it's just
    there to give non-profits access to cheap domains and webhosting.

    Who am I to offer this? Many many many moons ago I was the PLUG
    president, technically still am a PLUG system admin, and now my
    involvement is mostly just lurking as having a family doesn't
    leave as much free time (and I'm rural to Perth).

    Regards

    Tim

    On Sat, 2 Jul 2022 at 09:55, Russell Coker via linux-aus
    <[email protected]> wrote:

        Currently no-one is reading the LUV president email.  Email
        about the expiry
        of luv.asn.au <http://luv.asn.au> have been going to the
        president mailbox since April and now the
        domain is suspended.  I'm CCing this email to the Linux
        Australia list because
        probably a lot of LUV members won't get this message through
        the LUV list due
        to the expired domain.

        The LUV committee list receives almost no email, the committee
        seems entirely
        inactive in aggregate.  Presumably Andrew Pam will renew the
        domain (as he did
        last year) after my monitoring system detected that the domain
        was suspended
        (as it did last year) due to President email not being read
        and it not being
        renewed in time.  I'm putting this in a public email because I
        don't want to
        be falsely accused of being responsible for this debacle as I
        was last year.

        If LUV is going to run effectively it needs someone to
        volunteer to read the
        president email.  It gets an average of 2-3 spam messages per
        day which is
        probably not much compared to the spam that slips through most
        of our spam
        filters.

        Most of the LUV president spam comes from the web contact
        form.  The contact
        page could be changed to not have a form for submitting a
        message and instead
        refer to a Matrix address or something, it's easy to change. 
        While I've
        generally given up on all LUV sysadmin tasks than the minimum
        needed to keep
        things running I would be happy to change the contact page to
        something that
        will get a response for people who want information (IE
        anything other than
        going to a mailbox that hasn't been read since early September
        2021).

        Finally one thing that should be considered is moving the LUV
        mailing lists to
        the Linux Australia server.  The latest version of Mailman is
        a major pain to
        run and the older version is deprecated.  It doesn't seem
        likely that anyone
        will volunteer to give the LUV mailing lists the attention
        that's needed to
        get them running properly and the LA lists are maintained
        properly.

-- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/
        My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/



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