Subj : The Elist service
To   : All
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Tue May 02 2023 05:01 pm

Hello All!

Right well no one has expressed an interest in taking over the Elist service
along with the Pi it is running on.

To remind every one I will be 76 as of June 23 and my health could be better.

Historically, for the previous two Elist maintainers etc, on their death the
service died as well as their next of kin had no usage of the service or any
other within fido land etc so could not be contacted any way.

So this caused someone else to program a solution that the previous elist
keeper had in fact done. What a waste of effort.

I had hoped that by moving the entire operation on to a Raspberry Pi which is
low power system someone (a lot younger) might have been interested in taking
it over.

I having been running back ups of the running system on the Pi to my primary
system and in turn creating an archive of it so at least all the elements are
together on a JIC (Just in case basis). Again I have not seen anyone grabbing
it.

So I may well transfer the service back to my primary system as a independent
bbs system, if nothing else it will save me 2.5Kw electricity bill per day
which in money terms works out at the moment as 0.35 pounds per day - no not a
lot.

IF any one might be interested in taking this service over, hopefully younger
than myself please get in touch. You can use the Pi as a complete system or 
run
it side by side of you existing bbs system if you run Linux as it uses mbse as
the bbs system and the elist software is designed to use the bbs mailer and
other services to run which make it fairly automated - any bugs allowed for.

I will be bundling up the source code for Elist into an archive along with a
manual and other documentation for historic value may be.
Remember the elist system also looks after the BACKBONE.NA and BACKBONE.RPT
files where the former is usable with you file manager as a list of all echos
available in Fidonet. It does not hold any other nets as one one has requested
such - remember the .NA file does not support the network name for each echo
and any change to it would require BBS file manager software to be modified
which is yet another issue.

No, I am not intending to get very unwell or to die any time soon, but I have
to start allowing for such.


Vincent

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