<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">In my experience one who is willing to put out more effort to do less is an engineer of some sort.<div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Best Regards,</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-Matthew Brown</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 7, 2024, at 8:59 AM, Jim Kinney via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">And lazy would beat both apathy and procrastination for top slot of sysadmin attitudes but it's too much effort.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I do always laugh at the BOFH stories until extra effort is expended just to set up a fall for someone (PHB usually). No sysadmin I've ever met is willing to put out more effort to do less. Violates all laws of thermodynamics. An inactive sysadmin will remain inactive until forced to change state. And an active sysadmin will eventual wind up at the pub. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 6, 2024, 8:58 PM Jeff Lightner via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-2215114050822541079WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Procrastination doesn’t help. I plan to stop doing that any day now. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">😊</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Ale <<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jim Kinney via Ale<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 6, 2024 8:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>>; DJPfulio--- via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>>; <a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a><br><b>Cc:</b> Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jkinney@jimkinney.us" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jkinney@jimkinney.us</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] Godaddy Suxs!!!<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Living with apathy has its advantages....<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On December 6, 2024 8:05:19 PM EST, DJPfulio--- via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><pre>On 12/6/24 19:14, Jeff Lightner via Ale wrote:<u></u><u></u></pre></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #729fcf 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt"><div><pre>Typically Registrars will send you notice of upcoming domain expirations.<br><br>The problem with that AND calendar reminders is they usually are aimed at a<br>single person. If that person is no longer with the company/organization<br>OR that email has changed things might slip through the cracks. I often<br>complained to registrars and certificate issuing authorities about their<br>processes not recognizing having single contacts for notifications didn't<br>work well for larger shops. (Of course we could try to use shared<br>mailboxes but they often resisted that.)<u></u><u></u></pre></div></blockquote><div><pre><br>Email aliases are amazing things. You can have an alias that sends email to 1 or 500 people.<br><br>OTOH, if you are dead, you probably don't care that a cert or domain registration didn't happen. 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