[aklug] Re: Local e-mail accounts for an emergency?

I have though about this as well in the past, but never voiced it that I
can recall.

Ditto on Mike B's concerns. I don't know the ramification of those
either, but doing what I'm doing at the moment I have become very aware
of risk management.

I don't know that the idea of having it available for backup in case the
fiber gets cut is practical. Alaska, especially in relation to
communications, is very dependent on services being sourced from the
lower 48.

We still don't have, that I'm aware of, local peering. What If I'm on
Clearwire and you're on GCI? Or ACS, or, or, or ...

I think that we would likely need the communications infrastructure of
an independent country to make this a viable option. I am not against
the idea.

What we do is... Secede from the Union. Declare war. Fire one shot.
Surrender. Then we sit back and let the Fed's build us infrastructure
like they did in Germany & Japan after WWll. We used to talk like this a
lot back in the 70s :-)

Jim G

On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 16:13 -0900, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Has the aklug ever talked about having their own local e-mail server
> with accounts for regular aklug members?
>
> Reason I ask: One of the more likely "emergencies" around here, living
> in Alaska, is that our Internet communications with the rest of the
> world get cut off (lines get cut). I seem to recall that happening once
> years ago. Being a LUG, it would seem ideal that we would be better
> prepared for that sort of thing. We should have a set-up so that, when
> it happened, we could be e-mailing back and forth with each other about
> the situation when most other people are still trying to figure out what
> is going on.
>
> But as it stands, most of us on the list are using gmail, yahoo mail,
> and so forth, and would be cut off from the rest of the the AKLUG when
> out-of-state communications go down. Possible remedies are:
>
> 1. We all each own and operate our own local e-mail servers.
> 2. All the regular users of the AKLUG have an e-mail account on one
> local server.
>
> The second option seems more realistic. But before going into issues of
> implementation and whatnot, what are the feelings of the rest of you all
> about an idea like that?
>

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