[ILUG] panic@linux.ie

[Kenn Humborg]

kevin at suberic.net wrote:
> 
> had some quality shower thinking time today.
> 
> what if we contacted a user group in california, and another in australia
> and the three of us teamed up to for three access points for a single
> mailing list (panic at linux.ie, panic at cal-lug.org, and panic at aus-lug.org.au
> all pointing to the panic mailing list).  technically each site could
> do it's own maintenance and subscribe the other two lists, yes?
> 
> anyway, what would panic be for?  it should be a low volume list for
> answering emergency linux questions.  "my partition table got munched"
> "the dell whozitplex won't install and my boss is standing right here"
> it would be best if the list was open, but required some sort of
> registering (which would include a warning saying only emergency
> messages should be sent, and that detail should be provided, etc.
> i guess i'm thinking of the warnng rn put up before posting news.)
> 
> why involve ca and au?  that way we get 24x7 support with folks in
> a pretty distributed set of timezones on it.  it would be wise to not
> advertise it outside the groups, but if it works we could get other groups
> to set up their own panic lists - a sort of load balancing.

I think that's a pretty cool idea...

Kevin, you need to shower more often :-)

Kenn