Re: [ga] closure of idno list?

[Andy Gardner <andy@navigator.co.nz>]

At 3:16 AM +0000 28/6/01, david@farrar.com wrote:
>> Due to my own recent connectivity issues, I was not aware that someone had
>> shut down the idno list.  Was this action taken as a result of a formal idno
>> decision?  Who is/was the list manager?  Can anyone offer an explanation as
>> to why the list was closed?
>
>No one at all has decided to shut down the list.  Actrix who host the list
>shut
>it down as no one had paid the bill.  The bills were not going to me even
>though I was the temporary list owner.  I am not sure who had been receiving
>them.  I was unaware the list had been closed down until Joop e-mailed me and
>aksed why it wasn't working.  I checked and indeed it wasn't so I asked Actrix
>and they said no-one has paid the bill.
>
>The challenge we have is who is willing to pay for the hosting charges?  I'll
>certainly contribute some but not in a position to put in $200 a year by
>myself.

if I recall correctly, we had a member offer to host the mailing lists at
no charge, but Joop managed to convince the then chairperson that that
person was WXW in disguise, so he was unceremoniously dumped from the
mailing list selection "committee".

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