After six month's of expirations, he changes the password for the account. After one year, he'll remove the account. Lindsay also mentioned that he's looking at converting the membership database to something more robust, like postgress or mysql. The membership even thought it to be okay to spend some of the treasury to acquire more hardware. Location is the key issue, but several members promised to inquire with friendly ISPs about space and connectivity in return for sponsorship.
Immediate plans call for an update of perl and of apache, both of which are quite old.
The perl update is a prerequisite for installing mysql, an excellent database server, to which we plan to migrate our membership records. The additional space will hopefully be made available for additions such as emacs and trn for which we've had requests, although this may involve some repartitioning and reallocation of existing drive space. The best news is that Outernet Connection Strategies has agreed to colocate the system for us at their Austin facility in exchange for a sponsorship. We are still discussing the details of the move from a paper newsletter to a combination of an email and web-based newsletter, run from our web server and our ezmlm mailing list manager. So far we've encountered little objection to the move, and before the end of the year we should have all the details worked out and the transition should be complete.