[ale] Lower cost hosting for ALE

[Leam Hall]

Hey Jim,

I appreciate your effort and financial support. And yes, I support you 
taking an active hand in moderation when people don't moderate 
themselves. The main thing that has kept me from hastily saying 
something stupid is my slow typing rate.

Leam

On 12/19/18 8:17 AM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> All,
> 
> When I took on the hosting of ale web and email, I was hoping to see 
> some growth in membership and thus a need for higher bandwidth to 
> accommodate ALE. I raised my service level with Comcast to support more 
> upload than my original lowest tier original service.
> 
> That upgrade added about $150/mo that I would like to now scale back as 
> it's not being used. I plan to reduce the bandwidth at the first of 
> January 2019.
> 
> Between now and March 1, 2019, I want ALE to either become substantially 
> more active or relocate it's hosting. The server is a kvm virtual 
> machine so it's readily transportable.
> 
> And, yes, the latest squabble on the list impacted the decision to throw 
> in the towel. 20 years on this list and a small-scale flame war is the 
> last straw for my participation in ale life support. I used to step in 
> and privately contact people to request better online behavior and 
> respect for others. If that failed, I would urge the combatants to be 
> silent or be gone. If that failed, I unsubscribed them with notice.
> 
> When I volunteered to run the hosting (over a decade ago!?!), ale had 
> 1600+ subscribers. One individual joined and was such an abrasive person 
> that 1200 people unsubscribed over 3-4 months. The normal unsubscribe 
> rate was 5-10 people a year. In hindsight, I should have been more 
> forceful earlier at squashing the abrasive personalities.
> 
> If ale is going to survive, it's going to need to develop some more 
> formal structure with things like a code of conduct. If Linus can adapt 
> and stop being abrasive, ale can too. The personal attacks should not be 
> acceptable behavior.
> 
> Maybe we need to spin off pale-ale, "Professional Association of Linux 
> Experts - And Linux Enthusiasts" :-)
> 
> Or lager, "Linux And Gnu Expert Resources".
> 
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> 
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