Re: 3 administrative problems

I'm having some administrative difficulties and hope this message gets
through to the right people.

1) As of sometime yesterday evening (about 0200 UTC Tuesday), messages[1] I
sent to board(at)spi-inc(dot)org no longer come back to me.

2) The website does not appear to be getting automatically updated. I made
some updates to the SPI Donations page[2] on 18 February, but they haven't
shown up yet. My commits were reflected on the spi-www mailing list.
Peter Karlsson also reported to spi-www that he was unable to see my
commits.

3) There is apparently a problem with our mailman installation. Please see
<URL: http://www.spi-inc.org/mailing_lists/ >

Can anyone tell me what's going on, or fix these problems?

[1] Message-ID: <20050222011344(dot)GA12443(at)redwald(dot)deadbeast(dot)net>
Message-ID: <20050222011718(dot)GJ8659(at)redwald(dot)deadbeast(dot)net>
Message-ID: <20050222150128(dot)GK8659(at)redwald(dot)deadbeast(dot)net>
[2] http://www.spi-inc.org/donations

--
G. Branden Robinson, Deputy Treasurer
Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
branden(at)deadbeast(dot)net
http://www.spi-inc.org/

Previously Branden Robinson wrote:
> 1) As of sometime yesterday evening (about 0200 UTC Tuesday), messages[1] I
> sent to board(at)spi-inc(dot)org no longer come back to me.

Thanks, fixed.

> 2) The website does not appear to be getting automatically updated. I made
> some updates to the SPI Donations page[2] on 18 February, but they haven't
> shown up yet. My commits were reflected on the spi-www mailing list.

You made the changes on purcel, which no longer hosts the website. All
relevant hostnames were updated in DNS when that move was made and
it was announced on at least spi-www (see
http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-www/2005-January/000552.html ).

> Peter Karlsson also reported to spi-www that he was unable to see my
> commits.

He was probably looking at the correct location (ie cvs.spi-inc.org)

> 3) There is apparently a problem with our mailman installation. Please see
> <URL: http://www.spi-inc.org/mailing_lists/ >

This looks like a repeat of 1?

Wichert.

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