Re[2]: [ga] closure of idno list?

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Andy,

Wednesday, June 27, 2001, 8:26:09 PM, Andy Gardner wrote:

> 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".

And he never apologized to that member.  Other offers for free hosting
it were also rejected.

The commercial option was chosen because it was at a place that was
associated with someone that would do whatever Joop wanted.

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