srb still VRFY's at cuci.nl:
"250 Stephen R. van den Berg <srb(_at_)hera(_dot_)cuci(_dot_)nl>"
(that DOES expand from VRFY srb(_at_)cuci(_dot_)nl)
Note also that his mail banner is:
"220 hera.cuci.nl ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.8/BuGless_2.02 ready at Wed, 28 Oct
1998 22:19:36 +0100"
(the thing to note is BuGless_2.02 - srb appears to be alive and well, and
since it is sendmail 8.8.8, the BuGless is recent).
The webserver is identified as "Roxen·Challenger/cuci-BuGless"
srb does not show up in the list of users with web homepages on cuci.nl,
but attempting to go to his page using the standard syntax for the others:
<http://www.cuci.nl/~srb>
Results in being redirected to some.where.nl - which isn't found in DNS.
May be a standard "not there", or it may be a valid domain that just isn't
set up yet.
At 13:29 28-10-98 -0600, Matt Saroff wrote:
Actually, by this point, I would consider the patched 3.11 to be a full
relase, and work should behind on 3.12.
I would agree here.
However, a distribution not managed by srb should probably be given a
distinctly different release number identifier - such as 3.12pre1un (un for
unofficial).
Does he have any special copyright on procmail or can we elect someone to
take over and maintain the distribution?
I don't recall seeing explicit copyright messages anywhere, but I'm
positive I have not seen GNU licenses.
A website bearing the name www.procmail.org would also be nice...
Assuming that rights can be had.
Rights would be less of an issue here than the simple task of
administrating it -- some individual must take the initiative of paying to
register it, as well as be the ongoing contact point. That same individual
also needs to deal with getting a host and bandwidth for it (though this
may be provided by someone else).
Without a formal formation of an organization, this one individual would
reign control over the domain. I'm not saying outright that this is an
inherently bad thing, but the primary author of Procmail isn't around, so
what's to say that an individual acting as an admin for a domain will hang
around, or not have an equal drain on their time so as to prohibit them
from participating all of a sudden?
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