Has anyone tried to contact him?

Jonathan Aquilina


On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 9:29 AM <win...@genial.ms> wrote:

> As I tried to say, Stian or another inactive project member is controlling
> the domain records, which means it is not that easy.
>
>
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 03. Januar 2020 um 09:20 Uhr
> *Von:* "Jonathan Aquilina" <eagles051...@gmail.com>
> *An:* win...@genial.ms
> *Cc:* "David Lewis" <highwayofl...@gmail.com>, "FreeCol Developers" <
> freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Betreff:* Re: [Freecol-developers] Website fixes
> Hi Winter,
>
> You are worried about breaking the domain, there is an easy solution to
> that you would need to add a CNAME (Alias) record on DNS which will point
> to the .io site so if i go to the .org it would redirect me to the alias .io
>
> Jonathan Aquilina
>
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 9:18 AM <win...@genial.ms> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> a few days ago when reading SF webserver documentation, I saw that you
>> could switch over from PHP5 to PHP7.
>> It's just that we are completely HTML only without a single .php file
>> remaining -- that's why I saw no use in doing it.
>> If you switch over the domain would change from .net to .io, possibly
>> breaking our .org domain, depending on how it is configured. This might
>> also break some direct links to the .net subdomain somewhere.
>> We would get https on the .io domain, but certificates are bound to the
>> domain not ip, thats why I doubt it would work correctly on our .org domain.
>> There is still some old files on the ftp for the webserver in the
>> directory above the htdocs directory for the website -- these will need a
>> backup before a switchover!
>> I would not click the switch over button, without Stian and/or whoever
>> controls the .org domain giving his ok.
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>> wintertime
>>
>>
>> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 03. Januar 2020 um 06:31 Uhr
>> *Von:* "David Lewis" <highwayofl...@gmail.com>
>> *An:* "Michael T. Pope" <mp...@computer.org>
>> *Cc:* "FreeCol Developers" <freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Betreff:* Re: [Freecol-developers] Website fixes
>> Lol, bizarre.
>>
>> Yay for Yahoo filtering.
>>
>> I don't know that the forums would be moved.
>> I think we may just leave those as is on SF. overall I really don't see a
>> need to transition absolutely everything over to github from source forge,
>> just primarily the code base and the website. And also probably the ticket
>> tracker to GitHub issues.
>>
>> I don't really see a need to abandon SF entirely.
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 2, 2020, 9:26 PM Michael T. Pope <mp...@computer.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 23:19:14 +0100
>>> win...@genial.ms wrote:
>>> > I was anticipating of moving the website over to GitHub someday, but
>>> it's kinda surprising you'd like to move over the domain so fast when the
>>> other stuff is still on SF?
>>>
>>> Quite so.  I wish people who want to move stuff around would
>>> at the very least come up with a plan that includes the hard
>>> problems, like how to move the forums.  The website is easy.
>>>
>>> > Would it be easier to get https support for the freecol.org domain on
>>> GitHub?
>>>
>>> That is a timely remark.  Yesterday while I was trying to work out who
>>> has
>>> permission to update the SF website I came across something new[1]:
>>>
>>>                 Your website is currently hosted at
>>>                 http://freecol.sourceforge.net with PHP 5.4
>>>
>>>                 To update to https://freecol.sourceforge.io and PHP
>>> 7.x, click the button below.
>>>                 There will be a small delay for it to take effect. You
>>> may switch back if needed.
>>>
>>> I propose to click the button.  There is also some interesting stuff
>>> about
>>> github connections which I have yet to read.  More soon.
>>>
>>>
>>> And in the special D Blakeley section:-):  Blake, yahoo is not
>>> accepting mail from my ISP, who are sending me messages like:
>>>
>>>         This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
>>>
>>>         THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.
>>>
>>>         YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.
>>>
>>>         Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed.
>>>
>>>               <d_blake...@yahoo.com>
>>>
>>>         The reason for the problem:
>>>         4.3.2 - Not accepting messages at this time 421-'4.7.0 [TSS04]
>>> Messages from 150.101.137.19 temporarily deferred due to user complaints -
>>> 4.16.55.1; see https://help.yahoo.com/kb/postmaster/SLN3434.html'
>>>
>>> Given that I am with internode who have won a bunch of customer service
>>> awards, and you are with yahoo, who... hasn't, I am guessing the problem
>>> is at your end.  Now we just need someone to quote this email so Blake
>>> sees it.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mike Pope
>>>
>>> [1] "New" as in "added since I last looked around about a year ago"
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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