From erik.enge at gmail.com  Tue Feb  7 22:51:46 2006
From: erik.enge at gmail.com (Erik Enge)
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:51:46 -0500
Subject: [clnet users] Changes to common-lisp.net you should know about.
Message-ID: <58f839b70602071451m1a377ccs40e4456a2cdf851c@mail.gmail.com>

Hi.

First: I've created this mailinglist (users at common-lisp.net) so I can
reach you all at once.  Only the maintainer of the server (ie moi) can
post to this list and I intend to do so as rarely as I can get away
with.

I'm emailing you today because I'm worried about all the brute force
SSH attacks on clnet and I think I have a solution which may affect
how you authenticate with clnet via SSH.  What I propose to do is
disallow password-based logins and only allow publickey-based ones. 
This basically means that everyone is forced to do passwordless logins
which is a win-win, I think.

However, you may feel otherwise, thus this email.  Reply to me with
your thoughts on why I should not do this.  After hearing your
thoughts and if I still want to go ahead with it I'll email this list
with the date by which you should have your public key configured and
set up.  If we do this I'll also add a mini-howto section to the FAQ
describing how to do this.

Thanks,
Erik.


From erik.enge at gmail.com  Wed Feb 22 21:48:35 2006
From: erik.enge at gmail.com (Erik Enge)
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:48:35 -0500
Subject: [clnet users] common-lisp.net moving to a new server
Message-ID: <58f839b70602221348u5cc91b91gfa09f2067e4c8c0c@mail.gmail.com>

Tomorrow, Thursday the 23rd from 6PM EST, common-lisp.net will be
unavailable for 24+ hours. We are moving to a new server and a new
colocation facility in an effort to deal with our stability issues.
Thanks for your patience and sorry for the inconvenience.  I'll send
out an email to this list when all is well again.

Thanks,
Erik.


From erik.enge at gmail.com  Fri Feb 24 22:07:37 2006
From: erik.enge at gmail.com (Erik Enge)
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:07:37 -0500
Subject: [clnet users] Abondoned projects.
Message-ID: <58f839b70602241407w5e4159d5nefa89c25be48ea9a@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings,

Several of the 169 projects we are currently hosting at
common-lisp.net have been abandoned by their original owners.  Some of
these projects are still useful to others who would like to continue
to maintain them.

I propose the following procedure for taking over an abandoned project:

  - Day 1: email admin at common-lisp.net,
<project-name>-devel at common-lisp.net and
<the-owners-email-address>@wherever.com and ask that you be given the
ownership of the project.
  - Day 10: send the same email to the same recipients
  - Day 20: send the same email to the same recipients
  - Day 30: send the same email to the same recipients
  - Day 31: I will reply notifying you that you are now the owner.

If at any point someone from the -devel list or the owner himself
replies we can take it from there.  I will create a template that you
can paste into your mail client which details what's going on (you'll
just have to replace the project's name).

What do you think?  Is this a reasonable procedure?  Reply to me and
tell me why this isn't going to work or why I need to change this and
how.

I will read all replies and create a policy which would work for most of us.

Thanks,
Erik.


From erik.enge at gmail.com  Fri Feb 24 22:24:45 2006
From: erik.enge at gmail.com (Erik Enge)
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:24:45 -0500
Subject: [clnet users] Abondoned projects.
In-Reply-To: <4cf19da506a8e6db19e92f94120b9860@cs.nyu.edu>
References: <58f839b70602241407w5e4159d5nefa89c25be48ea9a@mail.gmail.com>
	<4cf19da506a8e6db19e92f94120b9860@cs.nyu.edu>
Message-ID: <58f839b70602241424g52a626f9idfd89b39369627e4@mail.gmail.com>

On 2/24/06, Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa at cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> just one question.  How do you define "abandoned"?

A project is considered abandoned when you can't get ahold of the
owner of the project.  The owner of the project is the person who can
add/remove others, essentially (the one who created the project).

Of course, you could claim that you tried to get ahold of the owner
for a whole five minutes and he didn't reply to your email which is
why I want the 30-day waiting period to make sure he's really missing
and can't be gotten in touch with.

Erik.


From erik.enge at gmail.com  Fri Feb 24 18:14:00 2006
From: erik.enge at gmail.com (Erik Enge)
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:14:00 -0500
Subject: [clnet users] Move is complete.
Message-ID: <58f839b70602241014y58289651ie077b468f20a9c77@mail.gmail.com>

Dear users,

Thanks for your patience as we completed the move.  FTP will trickle
in over the next few days.  Let me know if there are any problems at
erik.enge at gmail.com.

Thanks,
Erik.