Discussion:
ML Maintainer wanted
Hans Hübner
2017-11-30 13:50:35 UTC
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Hi,

I would like to step down from being the pro@ mailing list maintainer. It
is not a lot of regular work (maybe one or two visits to the Mailman page
per month to forward or reject a message from a non-subscriber), but it
might be that the list needs to be moved or something and I would like to
avoid getting into a situation where maintenance is required and I don't
have time to do it. Also, I'm not a professional Common Lisp user anymore,
so I don't qualify for the list at this point anyway :D

Any takers?

Thanks,
Hans
Sky Hester
2017-11-30 16:04:36 UTC
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Seems like it would be a good service to keep up. I volunteer, if no one
else has already spoken up.

-Sky

On Nov 30, 2017 5:53 AM, "Hans HÃŒbner" <***@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I would like to step down from being the pro@ mailing list maintainer. It
is not a lot of regular work (maybe one or two visits to the Mailman page
per month to forward or reject a message from a non-subscriber), but it
might be that the list needs to be moved or something and I would like to
avoid getting into a situation where maintenance is required and I don't
have time to do it. Also, I'm not a professional Common Lisp user anymore,
so I don't qualify for the list at this point anyway :D

Any takers?

Thanks,
Hans
Hans Hübner
2017-11-30 16:09:01 UTC
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Sky,

thank you for taking this over. The administrative interface is here:
https://mailman.common-lisp.net/admindb/pro - The mailing list password is
j0hnmcc4rthy - Please try and let me know if it works.

Cheers!
Hans
Post by Sky Hester
Seems like it would be a good service to keep up. I volunteer, if no one
else has already spoken up.
-Sky
Hi,
It is not a lot of regular work (maybe one or two visits to the Mailman
page per month to forward or reject a message from a non-subscriber), but
it might be that the list needs to be moved or something and I would like
to avoid getting into a situation where maintenance is required and I don't
have time to do it. Also, I'm not a professional Common Lisp user anymore,
so I don't qualify for the list at this point anyway :D
Any takers?
Thanks,
Hans
Hans Hübner
2017-11-30 16:15:57 UTC
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Well, I assume the password isn't going to be that for much longer, since
it was accidentally sent out to the mailing list... :-O
Nice one! 30 years of email and I still can't work it out!

Sky is nominated to be the keeper of the new password. :)

Cheers,
Hans
Steve Haflich
2017-11-30 16:55:48 UTC
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Post by Hans Hübner
Nice one! 30 years of email and I still can't work it out!
No, that's what happens to you when you no longer program in Common Lisp.
William Lederer
2017-12-01 17:47:37 UTC
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Ouch
Post by Hans Hübner
Sky,
https://mailman.common-lisp.net/admindb/pro - The mailing list password
is j0hnmcc4rthy - Please try and let me know if it works.
Cheers!
Hans
Post by Sky Hester
Seems like it would be a good service to keep up. I volunteer, if no one
else has already spoken up.
-Sky
Hi,
It is not a lot of regular work (maybe one or two visits to the Mailman
page per month to forward or reject a message from a non-subscriber), but
it might be that the list needs to be moved or something and I would like
to avoid getting into a situation where maintenance is required and I don't
have time to do it. Also, I'm not a professional Common Lisp user anymore,
so I don't qualify for the list at this point anyway :D
Any takers?
Thanks,
Hans
Tiago Maduro Dias
2017-12-01 17:52:48 UTC
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In fairness, it was a nice password for this mailing list. 😬

Cheers,

TMD.
Ouch
Sky,
thank you for taking this over.  The administrative interface is here: https://mailman.common-lisp.net/admindb/pro - The mailing list password is j0hnmcc4rthy - Please try and let me know if it works.
Cheers!
Hans
Seems like it would be a good service to keep up. I volunteer, if no one else has already spoken up.
-Sky
Post by Hans Hübner
Hi,
Any takers?
Thanks,
Hans
Sky Hester
2017-12-01 19:49:54 UTC
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Able to log in and see the admin interface.

-Sky
Sky,
thank you for taking this over. The administrative interface is here: https://mailman.common-lisp.net/admindb/pro <https://mailman.common-lisp.net/admindb/pro> - The mailing list password is j0hnmcc4rthy - Please try and let me know if it works.
Cheers!
Hans
Seems like it would be a good service to keep up. I volunteer, if no one else has already spoken up.
-Sky
Hi,
Any takers?
Thanks,
Hans
Sky Hester
2017-12-01 19:59:42 UTC
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Also: Co-maintainers are welcome to volunteer! If you so desire, you will be treated to the password of a lifetime, maybe.

-Sky
Post by Sky Hester
Able to log in and see the admin interface.
-Sky
Sky,
thank you for taking this over. The administrative interface is here: https://mailman.common-lisp.net/admindb/pro <https://mailman.common-lisp.net/admindb/pro> - The mailing list password is j0hnmcc4rthy - Please try and let me know if it works.
Cheers!
Hans
Seems like it would be a good service to keep up. I volunteer, if no one else has already spoken up.
-Sky
Hi,
Any takers?
Thanks,
Hans
Svante v. Erichsen
2017-12-01 20:43:07 UTC
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0f-4-l1f371m3?
Post by Sky Hester
Also: Co-maintainers are welcome to volunteer! If you so desire, you
will be treated to the password of a lifetime, maybe.
-Sky
Post by Sky Hester
Able to log in and see the admin interface.
-Sky
Post by Hans Hübner
Sky,
thank you for taking this over. The administrative interface is
here: https://mailman.common-lisp.net/admindb/pro
<https://mailman.common-lisp.net/admindb/pro> - The mailing list
password is j0hnmcc4rthy - Please try and let me know if it works.
Post by Sky Hester
Post by Hans Hübner
Cheers!
Hans
Seems like it would be a good service to keep up. I volunteer, if no
one else has already spoken up.
Post by Sky Hester
Post by Hans Hübner
-Sky
Hi,
maintainer. It is not a lot of regular work (maybe one or two visits
to the Mailman page per month to forward or reject a message from a
non-subscriber), but it might be that the list needs to be moved or
something and I would like to avoid getting into a situation where
maintenance is required and I don't have time to do it. Also, I'm not
a professional Common Lisp user anymore, so I don't qualify for the
list at this point anyway :D
Post by Sky Hester
Post by Hans Hübner
Any takers?
Thanks,
Hans
Ken Tilton
2017-12-02 00:52:49 UTC
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Post by Svante v. Erichsen
0f-4-l1f371m3?
​Nonsense. It's ​0f-4-l1f371m3!

To be honest, I think it would be a wonderful testament to the proud
morbidity of Lisp if we made the admin password public, put it in the FAQ,
and published it every month, and no one ever used it.

hth, hk
Don Morrison
2017-12-02 01:56:21 UTC
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Post by Ken Tilton
To be honest, I think it would be a wonderful testament to the proud
morbidity of Lisp if we made the admin password public, put it in
the FAQ, and published it every month, and no one ever used it.
There’s precedent in the MACLISP branch of Common Lisp’s family tree.
Anyone could login, or run without logging in, from anywhere in the country
over the ARPAnet, to the various ITS machines, using whatever lusername
they liked, without a password. And anyone could edit any file on the
machine, watch what anyone else was doing, and bring the machine down.
--
Don Morrison <***@cmu.edu>
“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from
acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, /The Summing Up/
Ken Tilton
2017-12-02 08:40:58 UTC
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Post by Don Morrison
Post by Ken Tilton
To be honest, I think it would be a wonderful testament to the proud
morbidity of Lisp if we made the admin password public, put it in
the FAQ, and published it every month, and no one ever used it.
There’s precedent in the MACLISP branch of Common Lisp’s family tree.
Anyone could login, or run without logging in, from anywhere in the country
over the ARPAnet, to the various ITS machines, using whatever lusername
they liked, without a password. And anyone could edit any file on the
machine, watch what anyone else was doing, and bring the machine down.
​Thanks for the wonderful history. I was immediately reminded of the Garden
of Eden​, a time of innocence before we ate from the tree of good and evil.

​-hk​
Don Morrison
2017-12-02 14:50:36 UTC
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Post by Ken Tilton
​Thanks for the wonderful history. I was immediately reminded of the
Garden of Eden​, a time of innocence before we ate from the tree of
good and evil.
Curiously, while certainly full of innocence, I think in some ways it may
have been less Eden-like and more an antagonistic response to the Great
Adversary, deliberately going in a direction opposite to Multics’s concerns
for security. An argument could be made that this division laid the ground
work for the FOSS movement. Via bits of history in which Lisp (mostly
pre-Common) is heavily involved.
--
Don Morrison <***@cmu.edu>
“Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much, or berate
yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody
else’s.” —Mary Schmich, /Chicago Post/, 1 June 1997
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