Re: [Dirvish] Shutting down Dirvish mailing list

2018-01-13 Thread Jenny Hopkins
Keith - sorry to hear about your health, and thanks for running the site for all these years. George - thanks for offering to take over. Let me know if you need any help. Jenny On 1 January 2018 at 19:54, George wrote: > I am a sysadmin by profession with 10+ years of experience so I have the >

Re: [Dirvish] Shutting down Dirvish mailing list

2018-01-01 Thread Bart Massey
Sure! I don't use Skype much so let me know when you'll be on. I'm Bart Massey, bart.mas...@gmail.com. I'm US Pacific Time (+8). Looking forward to chatting with you. On Mon, Jan 1, 2018, 22:19 George wrote: > Hi, > > Can you please send me your skype id where we can exchange info faster? > > T

Re: [Dirvish] Shutting down Dirvish mailing list

2018-01-01 Thread George
Hi, Can you please send me your skype id where we can exchange info faster? Thanks On Jan 2, 2018 06:51, "Bart Massey" wrote: Hi George! Looking forward to the possibility of working with you on migrating the Dirvish repository, email lists, etc. Can you tell me a little bit about your backgro

Re: [Dirvish] Shutting down Dirvish mailing list

2018-01-01 Thread Bart Massey
Hi George! Looking forward to the possibility of working with you on migrating the Dirvish repository, email lists, etc. Can you tell me a little bit about your background and what you're up to these days? Thanks! ___ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.

Re: [Dirvish] Shutting down Dirvish mailing list

2018-01-01 Thread Bart Massey
Keith: Thanks huge for maintaining this for all these years. I depend entirely on Dirvish for my backups, and owe you and the others on this list an enormous debt of gratitude. Thanks much to George for the very generous offer. I agree that this is the time to get this thing on Github. Let me know

Re: [Dirvish] Shutting down Dirvish mailing list

2018-01-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 1 Jan 2018, George wrote: > I am a sysadmin by profession with 10+ years of experience so I have the > necessary skills and knowledge to host and migrate the dirvish.org website > and all that is related to it. If needed I can set up the project on > github as well so there will no longer

Re: [Dirvish] Shutting down Dirvish mailing list

2018-01-01 Thread George
I am a sysadmin by profession with 10+ years of experience so I have the necessary skills and knowledge to host and migrate the dirvish.org website and all that is related to it. If needed I can set up the project on github as well so there will no longer be a need for a mailing list as we could us

Re: [Dirvish] Shutting down Dirvish mailing list

2018-01-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 1 Jan 2018, George wrote: > However I have a dedicated server of mine where I host several websites > and am willing to offer free hosting for the dirvish.org website as it is. > I can also pay for the dirvish.org domain and buy it before a spammer > takes it. Please let me know if this is

Re: [Dirvish] Shutting down Dirvish mailing list

2018-01-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 1 Jan 2018, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > For medical reasons, it is time to pull the plug. Keith, I'm sorry to read this. > I've asked twice over the last two years for a volunteer to take over; in > return, I got many suggestions for changes, but no volunteers. Unfortunately, my web

Re: [Dirvish] Shutting down Dirvish mailing list

2018-01-01 Thread George
Hi, I am a 5+ years dirvish user and I like it very much although I lack the programming skills to involve in the project. However I have a dedicated server of mine where I host several websites and am willing to offer free hosting for the dirvish.org website as it is. I can also pay for the dirv

[Dirvish] Shutting down Dirvish mailing list

2018-01-01 Thread Keith Lofstrom
It has been almost 14 years since Jonathan W. Schultz, the creator of Dirvish, died, and his server died soon after. In gratitude for his creation, and the opportunity to write about it for Sysadmin magazine, I built the dirvish.org website (with html and Moinmoin) and this mailing list (with Mail