Re: New Amanda Community release 3.5.2 Has Arrived! -- email bounce

gene heskett <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Sep 2022 05:27:42 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/30/22 02:32, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 29.09.22 um 02:03 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway:
>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 16:11:15 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 17:29:41 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>>>> I received:
>>>>
>>>> "Your message to [email protected] couldn't be delivered.
>>>>
>>>> Chris.Hassell wasn't found at betsol.com."
>>>
>>> (I just tried sending email to this email address.  My message was
>>> accepted for delivery by the Betsol mail server, and I haven't received
>>> any bounce message back [after waiting a few minutes].  So hopefully 
>>> the
>>> bounce you saw was just a temporary misconfiguration on the Betsol mail
>>> server...(?) )
>>
>> Ack -- I just discovered that my 9/13 test message did result in a
>> bounce message after all.  (The bounce message went to my spam
>> folder.)
>>
>> I tried again just now, and his email address still bounced.
>>
>> So it would seem that Chris is indeed no longer at Betsol  :(
>
> Ah, that's bad. So again no more direct upstream contact at Betsol.
>
> Still no packages provided by them for 3.5.2, still no activity at the 
> Github-issues, etc etc
>
> Sad.
>
> Let's see who follows.
>
> Thanks for the test, Nathan.
>
What follows is a four letter word.  fork. The question is how do we pay 
for a continuation of a better way to
do effective backups. And who is to be "in charge". IOW, do we let it 
fade away into the sunset for lack of
adequate support, or do we who have benefited from it, step up to the 
plate and make it a DIY project.

TANSTAAFL is the operative keyword here.  So who gets the bill for lunch?
> .


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