[wellylug] Important: Rule Breaking Process

[David Murray]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Brent Wood wrote:

> Wow, look what fun advertising will be! Lets open the list up, that's heaps
> better than keeping to discussing Linux, what do you think we're here for!!

WellyLUG itself has directly benefitted from those computers having been 
made available at no cost to WellyLUG members.

Wasn't that downtime on the website yesterday the time when one of those 
computers was put into service as the new host of our website?

Wouldn't the availability of FREE computers that are actually still very 
useful machines provide an excellent opportunity to learn about 
networking on Linux machines? About setting up NFS? Samba? LDAP? Bind? 
Apache? etc?

It's just a wee bit different if you've got these things actually 
physically on a different computer - you have to use them like everybody 
else uses them.

I see educational opportunities for WellyLUG members that result from 
having useful hardware available to members from time to time and at no 
cost.

What about having a spot on the website where WellyLUG can have a list of 
currently available free hardware in good working order that is available 
for WellyLUG members to have or to use?

Personally, I wouldn't be able to get my email or view web pages without 
at least three computers at my place being switched on and working 
correctly - firewall, server, desktop. And I've learned a lot by having 
those functions separated, and initially I started splitting those 
functions apart because I had free hardware available to me.

Isn't making free hardware available to WellyLUG members another way that 
members can positively contribute to WellyLUG?


Cheers

David



ps - my last email address that I was using for receiving WellyLUG email 
has started receiving spam. Thus I have changed it. Those of you who read 
WellyLUG from on a non-Linux based computer should check your machines and 
again get rid of your latest lot of spyware, malware, trogans, 
key-loggers, viruses and worms!!!