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 dirvish.org domain and buy it before a spammer takes it. Please let me know if this is something that you are willing to do. Thanks in advance. 2018-01-01 20:49 GMT+02:00 Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]>: > 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 Mailman) with my laughably inadequate software skills. > > For medical reasons, it is time to pull the plug. > > 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. The ancient version of the > mailman software is also broken; I can't unsubscribe > users with the administrative interface. I don't have > time to learn how to fix the software. > > So, I will shut down the Mailman mailing list in a week, > and turn off the virtual server when the dirvish.org > domain registration expires in May (which probably means > some spammer will get it, sigh). > > There are many, many copies of the website (and the mailing > list archives) on archive.org. As long as we continue to > support Brewster Kahle's excellent service, and actively > protect it from political interference, a copy of the site > will remain there. But Brewster is getting old, too. > Everything goes away without passionate support and > commitment. Sometimes, even that is not enough. > > So, it's been great. I've e-met many wonderful people, > and we did important things together. I still have some > very important things to do in the time that remains, and > I must focus on those. I hope the rest of you will have > enough time to complete your own important tasks. > > We are defined by what we make, not by what we take. > > Keith > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Dirvish mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish >
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