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From: Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org>
To: Ivan Brightly <ibrightly@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Schroder <info@andyschroder.com>,
	bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is SourceForge still trustworthy enough to host this list?
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 13:47:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150610184725.GP27932@nl.grid.coop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAre=yQSkFAHLfJ0h2rQY5vOFExSq2GDiRV32qe=EEVYOxCpqg@mail.gmail.com>

I think if the consensus is "pay with commits or pay with bitcoin"
we might have a consensus from the people that actually matter very 
quickly, because they've already paid ;)

My opinion is the most sustainable solution would be to identify a
team of admins and use something like Digital Ocean's new team accounts
feature and have someone like SolidX contribute funds for the servers
and a few hours a week from one of their sysadmins to the team.

I am dubious of most commercial list-as-a-service providers for the same
reason I am dubious of sourceforge. Market conditions change and then all
of a sudden the fact you're in control of a popular list becomes more 
valuable than what your customer is paying you to run the list.

If the list provider can actively help out in encouraging read-only mirrors
of the list archives, then I think we mitigate the above business risk.


On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 02:28:55PM -0400, Ivan Brightly wrote:
> I like elegant solutions and while eventually I can see a "pay to
> contribute" service, I don't imagine you'll get consensus in short order.
> 
> List provider costs are pretty reasonable, so if that's the hurdle to
> overcome I'm happy to offer sponsorship.
> 
> Ivan Brightly
> SolidX Partners
> 
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Andy Schroder <info@andyschroder.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Regarding changing the e-mail list provider. Is anyone interested in
> > sponsoring it? There are non-free options, but it may be difficult to
> > always ensure the fee is being paid to the provider. I think finding an
> > agreeable free solution may have been the issue before? I've also
> > thought of trying to make a pay per message or byte solution (and this
> > cost could be dynamic based upon the number of current mailing list
> > subscribers). This could solve the who pays problem (the sender pays),
> > as well as motivate people to be more concise and clear with their
> > messages, and at the same time limit spam.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Andy Schroder
> >
> > On 06/10/2015 05:35 AM, Wladimir J. van der Laan wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:25:12AM +0200, xor wrote:
> > >>
> > http://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-don%E2%80%99t-download-software-from-sourceforge-if-you-can-help-it/
> > > All our downloads (even old ones) have recently been deleted from
> > sourceforge, for this reason. They haven't been mentioned in Bitcon Core
> > release announcements for a long time.
> > >
> > > No opinion on the mailing list. Though I think it's less urgent. The
> > issue of moving the mailinglist has come up before a few times and people
> > can't agree where to move to.
> > >
> > > Wladimir
> > >
> > >
> > >
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Troy Benjegerdes                 'da hozer'                  hozer@hozed.org
7 elements      earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soul        grid.coop

      Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel,
         nor try buy a hacker who makes money by the megahash




  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-10 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-10  8:25 [Bitcoin-development] Is SourceForge still trustworthy enough to host this list? xor
2015-06-10  9:35 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-10 16:46   ` Andy Schroder
2015-06-10 18:02     ` Troy Benjegerdes
2015-06-10 18:41       ` Andy Schroder
     [not found]       ` <DB12E925-11C6-4A82-BC81-FB3DA26BC5B3@newcastle.ac.uk>
     [not found]         ` <20150610185810.GQ27932@nl.grid.coop>
     [not found]           ` <DB5PR07MB091974E06974EA88136F60C2B5BD0@DB5PR07MB0919.eurprd07.prod.outlook.com>
2015-06-11  1:46             ` Troy Benjegerdes
2015-06-10 18:28     ` Ivan Brightly
2015-06-10 18:47       ` Troy Benjegerdes [this message]
2015-06-10 19:13         ` Ivan Brightly
2015-06-10 18:36     ` s7r
2015-06-10 18:59       ` Andy Schroder
2015-06-10 19:03         ` Peter Todd
2015-06-10 19:12           ` Andy Schroder
2015-06-10 19:20             ` Peter Todd
2015-06-10 19:36               ` Andy Schroder
2015-06-10 19:43                 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-10 20:03                   ` Andy Schroder
2015-06-10 19:54         ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-11  9:27       ` Wladimir J. van der Laan

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