[ale] Lower cost hosting for ALE

[Damon L. Chesser]

On 12/19/18 11:44 AM, Beddingfield, Allen via Ale wrote:
> I ran that one.  It went for weeks on end with no activity.  A lot of 
> people signed up initially, including one person who had long since 
> been booted from here for constant off topic posts.  It eventually 
> just became him talking in an echo chamber with an occasional 
> response.  It came a time when I needed to restore the backup after a 
> problem, and I raised the question of whether we should continue it 
> as-is, do something different, etc...and there wasn't much input or 
> interest.  After a lot of inactivity, I just let it quietly die.
> If anyone has interest in something like that again, I'll be glad to 
> host it, or a PHPBB forum, as has been suggested.  I'm just NOT 
> signing up for moderator duty to mediate arguments.
> Allen B.
>
> On 12/19/18 10:27 AM, William Bagwell via Ale wrote:
>> For two years we had another place. Not to bitch and moan, but to 
>> chat off
>> topic. Worked great for the small subset of this list who were there.


I don't even remember what that was all about, in the distant pass.  I 
remember Aron melting down and Jim taking over, but specifics I just 
don't remember any more.


Has it been ten years? wow.


2013 - 2015 tech-chat at linuxmoose.com Not sure who was running it or why it
>> died?
>>
>> William
>>
>> On Wednesday 19 December 2018, Jerald Sheets via Ale wrote:
>>> snips
>>> I’ve said for years there needs to be “another place”™ where people can
>>> bitch and moan at each other while the main ALE list is moderated and
>>> policed, and have been shot down each time in favor of maintaining the
>>> status-quo cesspool.  If we can’t act like grown ups, expect to be 
>>> treated
>>> like little kids.  My 5 year old knows better… why don’t some of the
>>> “adults” on this list?
>>>
>>>
>>> Whatever happens, MANY THANKS to Jim for all his hard work over the 
>>> years.
>>>
>>> cheers.
>>>
>>> —jms
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