Is this group still alive?

[Charles Rishel]

I also was starting to wonder if there was some unknown virus going around 
and infecting Linux users.
Guess it was just all that tryptophan going around, put everyone to sleep 
for a few days ;-)

As a side note, I was never aware of Adelphia screening content or blocking 
emails, aside from efforts to control spam.  I do know that their 
newsgroups are very minimal and screened heavily, I have never really found 
Adelphia news servers to be much use, so I don't use them at all.  I do 
recall numerous customer complaints about the news servers and incomplete 
posts, threads that "disappeared" and such.  I know they were working on 
some new servers to replace the old ones, but would have no clue as to the 
status of that project.

But, it does raise an interesting point, if one cannot "trust" the 
integrity of their ISP in regards to email and news, since there was recent 
discussion about upgrades/updates to the LUG website, would it be at all 
possible to implement email services for LUG members?   I have NO clue as 
to the current arrangements that are in place to allow the site to operate, 
I am under the impression that site space and bandwidth is being donated to 
the group, and the additional bandwidth may or may not be an issue, but it 
would seem that it should not be a significant source of B/W overhead since 
all mail is currently going through the listserver anyway.  Security could 
be a point of contention that could put the idea down, but just thought I'd 
post the inquiry.

I would be willing to help in any way possible, including donations of 
time/energy/capital outlay.  Even though self-employed now and making 
minimal $$, I am sure I can squeeze some cash or hardware together to help 
the LUG.  I know that the subject of monetary donations/dues has had mixed 
reactions in the discussions previously, so I don't know if this is an 
issue the group wishes to discuss at this time or not.

Chaz03


At 07:52 AM 12/3/02 -0500, you wrote:
>we're not being blocked by anyone, that i know of at least. it's just been 
>quite since around thankgiving.
>
>shipdadip wrote:
>>I am sure it is.  This is sort of a test message, haven't received any of 
>>the normal spam I usually get from this group;)  I know Adelphia is 
>>blocking Yahoo groups, gotta feeling they're blocking this one too.
>
>
>--
>Darin Perusich
>Unix Systems Administrator
>Cognigen Corp.
>darinper at cognigencorp.com
>
>

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