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  13     <B>Ian Justman</B>
  14     <TT>ianj at ian-justman.com
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  16     <I>Thu Dec 31 19:21:30 PST 2010</I>
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  29 <PRE>Andrew Church wrote:
  30 <I>&gt; To all,
  31 &gt;
  32 &gt; Happy New Year!  I hope you are enjoying whatever holiday season you may
  33 &gt; be celebrating.
  34 &gt;
  35 &gt; As previously announced, the maintenance period for Services 5.1 has
  36 &gt; ended, and I will be taking down the Services website and mailing lists
  37 &gt; shortly following this announcement.  I will continue to accept reports
  38 &gt; of bugs which significantly affect security or stability and release
  39 &gt; updates to version 5.1 as necessary (there will be no further updates to
  40 &gt; version 5.0 in any case, even for security-related issues); please send
  41 &gt; such bug reports to me directly, at achurch at achurch.org.  The source code
  42 &gt; for Services will remain available at the current URL:
  43 &gt;     http://www.ircservices.za.net/download/
  44 &gt; through April 5, 2011, and release notifications will be posted on the
  45 &gt; project's Freshmeat page:
  46 &gt;     http://freshmeat.net/projects/ircservices/
  47 &gt;
  48 &gt; Thank you all once again for your support over the years.
  49 &gt;
  50 &gt; Best wishes,
  51 &gt;
  52 &gt;   --Andrew Church
  53 &gt;     achurch at achurch.org
  54 &gt;     http://achurch.org/</I>
  55
  56 For my part:
  57
  58 I'd like to thank you all for all your support throughout the years,
  59 bearing with me when I had to deal with a few migrations, upgrades and
  60 what not.
  61
  62 And here we are, over a decade later and many installations later, it's
  63 humbling to see how everyone's efforts in maintaining this software have
  64 gone to servicing many IRC networks throughout the Internet.  It's been
  65 quite a long time, and I'm glad to have had some part in it.
  66
  67 As administrator of the server which houses the lists, I'd like to say
  68 that I hope I've been of help to everyone over the years, but now that
  69 my role is done, I will be tearing the lists down.  However, I will be
  70 honest and say that I will not be sorry to do so.  My feelings can best
  71 be described as follows:
  72
  73 I.
  74
  75 Fucking.
  76
  77 Hate.
  78
  79 Mailman.
  80
  81 When I migrated to Jaunty earlier this year, I had to essentially
  82 massage Mailman's data into the new system.  It was not fun.  I
  83 absolutely cannot stand this software.  Despite its being one of the
  84 better-maintained pieces of mailing list management software, I cannot
  85 be convinced to run this software ever again.  I hate it that much.
  86
  87 Anyway, enough venting.
  88
  89 I would like to wish everyone the very best in your endeavors.
  90
  91 Take care!
  92
  93 --Ian.
  94
  95 --
  96 Ian R. Justman
  97 UNIX hacker.  Anime fan.  Any questions?
  98 ianj (at) ian-justman.com</PRE>
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