From smj@sdf.lonestar.org Tue Apr 1 08:38:16 2003 Return-Path: Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:smj@ol.freeshell.org [192.94.73.20]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h318cGVH027624 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 08:38:16 GMT Received: (from smj@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h318cGxe027623 for martians; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 08:38:16 GMT Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 08:38:16 GMT From: Stephen Jones Message-Id: <200304010838.h318cGxe027623@sdf.lonestar.org> Subject: SDF April 2003 Newsletter Status: RO Content-Length: 3206 Lines: 73 ---------------- S D F Newsletter ---------------- 01-APR-03 Topics: [0] Special Notice. [1] Move Status and Information. [2] ARPA member Survey and Vote. [3] Ways to support SDF. [0] Special Notice. I'm hoping this will be the last time that I email all ARPA members. I would like to ask to please watch for posts to bboard: and bboard: for future newsletters. I know that I've not be writing these regularly, but as you can guess, I've been tending to more pressing issues. I've been in frequent correspondence with FBI agents in regards to the DDoS attack that caused NWLINK to drop us as provider. We've recent accumulated some new evidence as well, a few eyebrows were raised at the FBI when they heard we spent just under $10,000 to move our machines to Dallas as we could not find hosting in Seattle due to the 'bad reputation' we gained from NWLINK's action. [1] Move Status and Information. The move is 100% complete and I hope it was completely transparent to most of you. We are on entirely new hardware (except for the 21 36.4GB disk drives .. those were shipped down from Seattle). 50 SDF members participated in a decommission party for the last AS1200 (the old SDF) waiting to be shutdown in Seattle. The chat log can be reviewed at: ftp://sdf.lonestar.org/pub/sdf/historical/31-MAR-03_Decommission.txt [2] ARPA membership survey and vote This is important to make your voice heard in shaping our membership dues schedule. You can take the survey by typing 'survey'. If this survey produces results that are very different than our current membership survey, then we'll have a formal vote. One of the major changes would be the *inclusion* of the $17 domain registration fee in the VHOST and DNS memberships. Quite a bit of savings for you. But hopefully, that will encourage members to register and host more domains on sdf. [3] Ways to support SDF. People always ask me how can they support SDF? * At the moment, we don't need any hardware. Infact, we have some hardware that YOU might be interested in .. keep your eyes on the bboard for SDF auctions. * Try answering other member's questions on the bboard. * We could use a good lawyer who is very enthusiastic about our case! * If you wrote a letter to the BBB or ATG, we recommend that you send a copy of your letter to the EFF (www.eff.org). They have told us that we need to tell them how they can help us in our case. Clearly, our rights have been violated. We need to show our numbers. * The 'pledge' command is a great way to make a pledge of support of any amount to SDF (minimum $2 a year ;-) * Consider one of the additional memberships * Teach a class at a local community college using local terminals and the internet to connect to SDF. * Tell friends at work or school about SDF. Thank all of you for your support of SDF. I really appreciate you all and your support of what we're doing. Also, thank you for tolerating me while I go through caffeine withdrawals on bboard: ;-)