Aztec Freenet seeks volunteers

[Dennis Kibbe]

Does anyone remember Aztec Freenet? They offer free test-based internet & e-mail
service. I still have an account there and check it once a month just to stay
current. Aztec has moved from ASU after eight years and now has space thanks to
EMR. Aztec is looking for volunteers to help update the system. I don't know if
they will offer the Premium service (PPP, Mozilla, etc.) for $100/yr like is
offered in Canada. I think for now it's just pine & lynx.

Dennis Kibbe
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Here's the e-mail from Nathalie Goss, President, AzTeC Board of Directors.

 Here is a brief description of what is to be done
(overall, and Linux-specific)

Everything:

SonOS Solaris administation, perl and shell scripts to automate some tasks
and off-load others (i.e. write menu so other volunteers can perform simple
things like acct. maintenance etc). Other scripts involve clean-up, organizing
ready scripts, cleaning up dormant accounts, crontabs for system stats, backup,
routine tasks, news etc. Porting FreePort BBS software to current Solaris
version; implementing secure SSL POP3 Email alongside FreePort's mr (mail
reader) or Pine (Chebucto suite); installing irc (local only) for local chat on
AzTeC only and making it work within freeport (should be easy, has been done
with older ver. of irc); voted module (so people can vote on things) or develop
alternative (www / php / cgi based); Webmail (almost completed); cost-free
spam filter implementation in addition to sendmail's built-in abilities;
Linux-specific:

Chebucto suite is BBS software designed around "lynx -exec" concept (lynx
browser and -exec option built in it). It uses Pine for Email, TIN for news +
IRC for local or global IRC. You can see functional implementation of Chebucto
suite online (as well as some limited documentation - I have more as well as the
distribution package). OK. Here is an ouotline of what we need to do:
1. Csuite was developed and ported on RedHat 6.1 distribution, which is
quite old. It may work on Redhat 6.2 out-of-the-box so to speak, but newer
kernels (2.4x vs. the 2.2x above) have many advantages... So I am thinking along
two lines here: best is to try to port and making it work within freeport
(should be easy, has been done with older ver. of irc); voted module (so people
can vote on things) or develop alternative (www / php / cgi based); Webmail
(almost completed); cost-free spam filter implementation in addition to
sendmail's built-in abilities; Linux-specific:

Chebucto suite is BBS software designed around "lynx -exec" concept (lynx
browser and -exec option built in it). It uses Pine for Email, TIN for news +
IRC for local or global IRC. You can see functional implementation of Chebucto
suite online (as well as some limited documentation - I have more as well as the
distribution package). OK. Here is an ouotline of what we need to do:

1. Csuite was developed and ported on RedHat 6.1 distribution, which is
quite old. It may work on Redhat 6.2 out-of-the-box so to speak, but newer
kernels (2.4x vs. the 2.2x above) have many advantages... So I am thinking along
two lines here: best is to try to port Csuite onto a current (RH8) distro -
which should be easy because most of the odd-ball modules are not needed
(see #2).

2. We can start with RH 6.1 install and a working distribution of Csuite
 but at the end we should have an integrated suite of otherwise standard
applications: Pine, lynx, Tin, IRC plus small overhead to make it work together :)

I have set up a development machine on my home network, which right now
runs Mandrake 9.0 but will put RH8.0 and RH6.1 and anything else we may need
there... multiple boot, and will ensure a serial console server too so you can
reboot system etc.




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