IRCServices

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Here's the text of Andrew Church's final post to the IRCServices list:

From: achurch@achurch.org (Andrew Church)
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:00:00 JST
Subject: [IRCServices] IRC Services end-of-life announcement

To all,

Happy New Year!  I hope you are enjoying whatever holiday season you may
be celebrating.
As previously announced, the maintenance period for Services 5.1 has
ended, and I will be taking down the Services website and mailing lists
shortly following this announcement.  I will continue to accept reports
which significantly affect security or stability and release
updates to version 5.1 as necessary (there will be no further updates to
version 5.0 in any case, even for security-related issues); please send
such bug reports to me directly, at achurch@achurch.org.  The source code
for Services will remain available at the current URL:
     http://www.ircservices.za.net/download
through April 5, 2011, and release notifications will be posted on the
project's Freshmeat page:
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/ircservices/

Thank you all once again for your support over the years.

Best wishes,

  --Andrew Church
    achurch@achurch.org
     http://achurch.org/

Here's the text of my final post to the IRCServices list:

Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:21:30 -0800
From: Ian R. Justman <ianj (at) ian-justman.com>
Subject: Re: [IRCServices] IRC Services end-of-life announcement

Andrew Church wrote:
(Andrew's original message from above goes here)

For my part:

I'd like to thank you all for all your support throughout the years, 
bearing with me when I had to deal with a few migrations, upgrades and 
what not.

And here we are, over a decade later and many installations later, it's 
humbling to see how everyone's efforts in maintaining this software have 
gone to servicing many IRC networks throughout the Internet.  It's been 
quite a long time, and I'm glad to have had some part in it.

As administrator of the server which houses the lists, I'd like to say 
that I hope I've been of help to everyone over the years, but now that 
my role is done, I will be tearing the lists down.  However, I will be 
honest and say that I will not be sorry to do so.  My feelings can best 
be described as follows:

I.

Fucking.

Hate.

Mailman.

When I migrated to Jaunty earlier this year, I had to essentially 
massage Mailman's data into the new system.  It was not fun.  I 
absolutely cannot stand this software.  Despite its being one of the 
better-maintained pieces of mailing list management software, I cannot 
be convinced to run this software ever again.  I hate it that much.

Anyway, enough venting.

I would like to wish everyone the very best in your endeavors.

Take care!

--Ian.

-- 
Ian R. Justman
UNIX hacker.  Anime fan.  Any questions?
ianj (at) ian-justman.com

I have since decoupled Mailman from my mailserver and Mailman will soon be completely removed from my server in every last form imaginable.

Please do not ask me for hosting or help with your Mailman installation. I have no desire to have any administrative contact with this software ever again.

Thank you for understanding.

--IanJustman 04:21, 1 January 2010 (UTC)