[sdiy] ADMIN MESSAGE: THE FUTURE HAS ARRIVED, SO: GOODBYE, AND HELLO!

[Ben Stuyts]

Hi all,

Many thanks to Rick for running this list for so long. (And continuing to run it on the new server.) And best wishes to his future endeavours in Spain!

I haven’t posted much on this list, although I’ve been subscribed since 1998. I have a 5U system mostly built from kits (MOTM, Oakley, Haible, etc), and a bunch of analog synths both old and new. And I play bass. I also run the PolySix and Mellotron mailing lists over at Yahoo.

I always enjoy reading the info on this list. So when Rick mentioned his future hosting problems I wrote him an email. I explained that I had spare room on an existing server to run the list. It’s a virtual server so this brings the list to ‘the cloud’ I guess. Rick and I have full access to this server, so we should be good again for the future.

I am very glad that I was able to help out and do something back for Rick and this community. Rick will continue to run the list, and I will be his backup. And I will do my best to make sure the server runs smoothly.

Some tech info:
I am currently seeing some problems with mail delivery. Some ISP’s don’t like the fact that the domain is very new (understandable), and both Yahoo and Gmail don’t seem to like us at all for now. List mail either ends up in the spam folder or it is temporarily blocked. I have added my own yahoo and gmail addresses to the list to monitor this. I see messages from Yahoo saying "Messages from 37.97.216.13 temporarily deferred due to user complaints.” That doesn’t help. :) Our server is not on any of the spam block lists, and I’ll do my best to keep it that way.

Please let me or Rick know of any problems. (synth-diy-owner at synth-diy.org would be a good e-mail address to use for this.)

Kind regards,
Ben Stuyts


> On 30 Oct 2016, at 14:57, Rick Jansen <rick.jansen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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> [NO PANIC]: ** SYNTH-DIY HAS MOVED - THIS IS THE NEW LIST **
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> Dear all,
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> It's come up a few times in the past few years: I will be leaving The Netherlands, and will no longer have the infrastructure to run synth-diy from home, as I've done in the past uh... years. 
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> "synth-diy" started in 1995 on a machine at work using a mailing list application called "majordomo", and moved with me to a machine at a new job, also with majordomo. Then, when DSL lines became available at home it moved to an old HP windows-machine-turned-linux  on a shelf above the coat rack when I moved house. Subsequently it moved to an old mac mini on my desk with "mailman", and proper backups, when that HP machine crashed, which must have been in 2007, the start of the current archives. 
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> Now it is 2016, I am somewhere mid fiftmblbmbl, with a house that was bought at the right time, it's mortgage now paid off, which enables us to sell up, and move to the very south of Spain, to a cheaper life, more sun, longer summers, but, no cable, no DSL, just a wireless connection using antennae in the hills. Not suited for running mailing lists.
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> We're very fortunate that Ben Stuyts <ben at stuyts.nl> has kindly provided a new home for synth-diy! He even has acquired the domain "synth-diy.org", and set up a virtual server with mailman and apache, so the list has a new home, at:
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> http://www.synth-diy.org/
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> I have taken the liberty of transferring the entire list, you the subscribers, and archives to the new machine. So, from this very moment synth-diy runs (t)here, unchanged apart from the address. Instructions and links are on the page in above link. In short:
> To subscribe point your browser to: http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy and follow instructions.
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> To unsubscribe or manage your subscription go to: http://synth-diy.org/mailman/options/synth-diy
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> To send a message to the list send a mail to: synth-diy at synth-diy.org
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> The "management" of the list, as far as that is/has been necessary, I'll continue to do, together with Ben. Fortunately there is not much fighting here, so people management tasks have been minimal. From time to time, though, hardware or other services fail, and some action is needed. Please contact either Ben, or me, and we'll see how to fix things when necessary, though that is now more in Ben's hands than in mine.
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> I am very very grateful to Ben that he is willing to provide synth-diy's new home, and I'm relieved that synth-diy will continue. As I'm sure you all will be! 
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> Personally I've been away from actual hardware electronics a looong time. Paid software jobs seem to take up a lot of one's time, somehow, but they provide food and shelter, and mailing list infrastructures, among other things. I do intend to get back to the world of simple silicon and soldering, next to tending a house and garden, so probably you'll see a bit more of me in the future.
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> All the best, and I (we) hope you continue to enjoy, share, learn and teach here. 
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> Rick Jansen & Ben Stuyts
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> PS
> As mentioned, the current archives start in 2007, so there are some years missing. I'll have more free time in time to come, and will put in effort to restore the years 1995-2007 from available sources, soon. I'll get back to you for help with that, in due time.
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