LIST ADMIN - new temporary list

Fellow Listmembers; I've procrastinated ad-nauseam on this till it's way past time to address the issue.... the Classiccmp server is in need of a hardware upgrade and/or replacement. The main (but not only) issue: disc space and thus chassis space. This produces a cascading set of dependencies :) I realize the upgrade is not entirely due to the classiccmp list, some of it is due to all the classiccmp related websites & ftp sites I have agreed to host gratis for listmembers. I feel these provide a service to our community and are worth providing the facilities for - but I want to make sure that is all clear to everyone. As a side note, we're looking to do a substantial bandwidth upgrade at the datacenter too - no doubt that will help traffic matters on the classiccmp server. I do not want to clutter up the normal list traffic with discussion of this topic. Some here won't care about it and/or will be annoyed by all the PeeCee hardware talk. Others will no doubt pull it into other unrelated topics ;) As a result, I've created a new temporary list (newserver at classiccmp.org) for this discussion. If anyone is interested in participating in the hardware discussion about what to upgrade to, how best to do it, etc. please join that list as soon as possible. Yes, I'm completely capable of coming up with a configuration and putting it into production without input... but there are various subjective things I'd like others advice on besides just my own. Not to mention these upgrades have usually been mostly funded through member donations so it's certainly appropriate to get input from as many as possible who wish to talk about it. My plan is to wait a week for anyone interested to get on the newserver list. After that time, I will start the discussion by posting a detailed list of exactly what is in the server, what issues I see with it, what I was thinking as to solutions, etc. Then we can all discuss there. Once we come down to how to proceed, perhaps we will post back to the main list for everyone to be aware of - or should we just assume the interested parties participated in the other list and just go with it? Don't answer that here, it's a question for the other list traffic :) Once a decision is reached, the temporary list will be decomissioned. I very sincerely appreciate the input anyone may have there with regards to server upgrade choices. Best regards, Jay West