> There should not be that much centralisation worries > as long as there are enough (sub)domain providers you > can choose from.
For example, in my extended family there are a few of us who are tech-savvy. We could coordinate to set up and share out domains, a fat pipe, hard-to- admin services and so on ... while other relatives can still use their personal boxes for easier to admin and most private stuff. I think that is towards the right model of how these things get deployed: they are "sold" (or otherwise got in the hands of) real world groups --- tribes --- whether that means friends and family, clubs, samizdat societies or what have you. Within each group, there are specialized roles. -t ----- my Freedombox notes accumulating at http://basiscraft.com On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 08:06 +0100, Michael Blizek wrote: > Hi! > > On 15:04 Sat 26 Feb , Anthony Papillion wrote: > ... > > Asking everyone to run their own email server on the Freedom Box is fine > > - especially if it's pretty transparent and 'just works' for them. But > > the process of purchasing and associating a domain name with the box, > > configuring the mail server to accept mail for the domain, configuring > > MX records, etc, are all over the average users head. > > > > When I was pursuing my project, my solution was to run an intermediate > > domain service and then assign subdomains to each server sold. Then, all > > the user would have to do is go into the interface and plug in their > > subdomain and the service would just work. We'd (me, initially) would > > handle everything on the backend domain side. > > > > That, of course, would mean having an email address like > > [email protected] but it would streamline management a bit. > > I guess you should not really ship a (sub)domain with the device, but rather > give the users an easy way to register one for themselves. This should be > possible to do without leaving the freedombox userinterface. There should not > be that much centralisation worries as long as there are enough (sub)domain > providers you can choose from. > > You do not need an MX record either. If you do not have one, mails will be > sent to the server in the A record instead - which is exactly what you need. > > -Michi _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
