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MAFxc Changes
Bob Sutterfield
ICCM 1998
June 5-9, Abilene Christian Univ.
History
• ICCM93 - 4:00am in the dorm lounge• Partnership of GMI, ICMC
– Mark Patterson, Richard Fairhead, Cathleen Sward, Steve Neruda, Karl Fox
• ICCM94 - introduced CrossConnect• April 1995 - move to MAF
– became MAFxc– joins MAFlink family of services (MAFnet, MAFtel)
Environment
• Present– Pentium Pro 200, 128MB, UltraSCSI RAID– NetBSD, Sendmail, MajorDomo, Apache
• T1, firewall, offsite DNS, backup MX
• Rolling Out Now– Pentium II 300, 128MB, UltraSCSI RAID– True Blue Microsoft: NT, IIS, SQL Server– RealAudio
Services
• Stable email address, From: line rewrite
• Email conferencing– Started with MajorDomo in Perl– Added email list administration– Added mail-based archive service
• WWW hosting
• High priority on email-only missionaries
Growth So FarDate
Total Confs
Msgs Sent
Active Confs
Brigada Active 1000 Msgs
Jul-94Aug-94 8Sep-94 5Oct-94 25Nov-94 18Dec-94 24 1Jan-95 36 4Feb-95 49 12Mar-95 62 22Apr-95 171 64,397 71 26 64May-95 210 106,639 87 31 107Jun-95 242 113,644 90 27 114Jul-95 268 341,971 118 28 342
Aug-95 293 330,165 123 33 330Sep-95 348 562,102 129 35 562Oct-95 364 533,864 161 34 534Nov-95 408 555,980 170 38 556Dec-95 445 167 31Jan-96 539 1,213,304 205 43 1,213Feb-96 556 1,247,818 223 43 1,248Mar-96 573 1,400,882 239 48 1,401Apr-96 590 1,365,995 237 43 1,366May-96 634 1,534,872 254 43 1,535Jun-96 671 1,371,978 255 44 1,372Jul-96 697 1,717,136 286 52 1,717
Aug-96 295 40Sep-96 756 1,811,395 331 44 1,811Oct-96 875 2,241,394 389 49 2,241Nov-96 945 2,085,186 396 51 2,085Dec-96 911 2,123,398 423 49 2,123Jan-97 950 2,451,355 431 51 2,451Feb-97 457 43Mar-97 1,067 473 48Apr-97 1,160 2,479,466 493 53 2,479May-97 1,181 2,733,618 510 46 2,734Jun-97 1,374 2,235,657 498 49 2,236Jul-97 504 52
Aug-97 1,507 2,962,818 573 90 2,963Sep-97 1,549 3,435,928 657 93 3,436Oct-97 1,621 3,350,826 692 94 3,351Nov-97 1,686 3,275,373 670 84 3,275Dec-97 1,733 3,217,223 699 88 3,217Jan-98 1,804 4,400,042 691 83 4,400Feb-98 1,851 4,043,669 678 65 4,044
Mar-98 1,893 5,131,359 760 93 5,131
Apr-98 1,941 5,089,786 783 107 5,090
May-98 2,012 5,388,579 807 98 5,389
MAFxc Conferences
1
10
100
1,000
10,000
Jul-9
4
Oct-94
Jan-
95
Apr-9
5
Jul-9
5
Oct-95
Jan-
96
Apr-9
6
Jul-9
6
Oct-96
Jan-
97
Apr-9
7
Jul-9
7
Oct-97
Jan-
98
Apr-9
8
Total Confs Active Confs Brigada Active 1000 Msgs
MajorDomo Shortcomings
• Arcane commands
• Difficult to manage conferences– no help with bounce-o-grams– no WWW, news interface– lacks features
• Difficult to manage server– requires lots of techie time– lots of helpdesk time too
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Search Criteria
• Meet user & admin feature requests– hold subscription– see own post– more flexible and forgiving– cleaner digests– more interfaces
– ALL features available via email
Search Criteria
• Meet user & admin feature requests
• Reduce helpdesk traffic– Quicker response– Staff available for other tasks, services
Search Criteria
• Meet user & admin feature requests
• Reduce helpdesk traffic
• Reduce techie involvement– helpdesk backup– maintenance– development
Search Criteria
• Meet user & admin feature requests
• Reduce helpdesk traffic
• Reduce techie involvement
• API for future features
Lyris
• Access: WWW, email, netnews
• Subscriber features– see-my-own, ack, no response– nomail– easy digests (messages or just headers)– sees commands embedded in MIME cruft
Lyris
• Access: WWW, email, netnews
• Subscriber features
• Administrator features– Bounce-o-gram catcher– Multiple administrative levels
• server, site, list
– Auto responders– Multiple sites per server
Lyris
• Access: WWW, email, netnews
• Subscriber features
• Administrator features
• Developer features– API: Perl, C++, Java coming– Database (dBase runtime or ODBC)– Lots of sources and examples provided
International
• Lists can use international characters
• Multi-language Web, email interface
• Multi-language document support.– A document can exist in multiple languages,
and Lyris picks the right one
• Identifies user’s preferred language by domain (.de, .fr, etc)
New Connectivity
• Equant– dialup access at international airports– private network means better management– helpdesk everywhere– 75¢ per minute– 56K trunk now, will expand
• Direct dialup to Redlands CA USA– ISDN, V.90, K56flex, V.34 digital modems– 909 or 800
New Connectivity
• Equant– dialup access at international airports
• Direct dialup to Redlands CA USA– 909 or 800
• Planet1 satellite phone– dialup everywhere– 2400 Baud data port
Email Access
• POP3/IMAP and SMTP– Internet (tunnel only)– Equant (tunnel only)– Dialup
• cc:Mail– mobile– Post Office– SMTP gateway
New Security Services
• PPTP tunnelling– 40 bit (export)– 128 bit (domestic)
• SSH tunnelling– default 1024 bit
• Soon: PGP forwarding
Schedule
• Lyris– 6/98 early adopters– 7/98 full transition
• IIS/FrontPage– 6/98 early adopters– 7/98 most sites
• Secure POP3 and other tunnelled services– 8/98 early adopters– 9/98 generally available
Schedule cont.
• PGP forwarding– 10/98 early adopters– 11/98 generally available
References, Contacts
• http://hub.XC.Org
• http://www.Lyris.Com
• Conferences: [email protected]
• Service Questions: [email protected]
• Planet1: [email protected]
• Speaker: [email protected]
• +1 909 794 1151