Ah, now continuing where we left off...

You *will* give in to MBV if you haven't already, you will...

I will mention this newly formed YahooGroup which is expressly designed to talk over the options over finding/hosting a new ILx site in possible place of greenspun.com. Thanks to Tom for setting it up; please join if you wish to help Shape the Future!

THE SITUATION

We know, from other forums, that Greenspun.com is eventually going to go down permanently because Phil Greenspun isn't maintaining this server any more. I've emailed Phil asking him to confirm this but the info is from people (eg the Countryside moderator) who have talked directly to him about it. The payment/registration thing he talks about on the front of greenspun.com seems to be a bit of a red herring.

So we need to decide what, if anything, happens then. On the Yahoo! list - which is open to everyone, the approval thing is a formality - we're looking into replacement formats, including coding our own, and into options for archiving some/all of the threads here.

The Yahoo! List is not going to be any kind of ILX replacement, by the way, it's just an admin thing.

I'd be happy to host ILx on my server at http://wh3rd.net/. It's situated at an Internet Provider in Australia, but the connectivity and speeds are very quick (and more than adequate for the needs of this community).

I'd also be happy to duplicate the functionality of the forum software we have here, and perhaps implement some improvements if deemed necessary. (I'm a Systems Developer professionally, and currently specialise in database driven web development.)

Send me an email if interested.

I hope somebody with the authority to do so has emailed Andrew about this as he sounds like The Man For The Job.

"Now you see it now you don't. . . Psycho-socialism."

[Sample--presumably from a movie?--I heard at the beginning of a song in Arabic, on a live video by Syrian singer George Wassouf.]

ned, the yahoo link wasn't working for me. what's up with that?

Hm...dunno, actually.

nevermind, working fine now.