Date:  Sun, 01 Apr 2001 18:30:24 -0400
From:  madodelatptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] VOICE Meeting, Nominations and other VOICE News

From: madodelatptdprolog.net 

[Please excuse this if it is a duplicate posting as it was sent out over
the VOICE Members list last night.  However it contains information that
is important to those who are not as yet members as well so I am sending
over the VOICE News list as well.]

- First off, there is a VOICE General meeting on IRC on Monday April 2nd
at 8PM EDT (00:00GMT).  The main topic is VOICE server services,
particularly providing our own secure server for membership payments. 
Please try to attend if you can.  We need more participation in the
affairs of our growing organization.  

For more on VOICE meetings and IRC please see the VOICE Meeting
Information page at http://www.os2voice.org/meetinginfo.html or send me an
email at madodelatptd.net and I will try to help you.

- Speaking of participation, we have a great opportunity for members to
help the OS/2 community by nominating themselves for the positions of
President and Secretary of VOICE.  If you are interested in helping us
continue to grow and serve the OS/2 community, and you have the time to
help, please give this serious consideration.  We need your help, as it is
difficult to continue to expand ourservices when we are short-handed. 
VOICE is an all volunteer organization, dedicated to the education and
support of the OS/2 user community.  If you are intersted please send a
short bio to nominateatos2voice.org along with the position you are
nominating yourself for.

- The VOICE mail lists have been extremely slow in processing since
yesterday due to an inadvertent DOS attack on our mail server caused by a
looping bounce message from an invalid email address subscribed to the
news list.  We are proud of the fact that VOICE1, running Warp Server
eBusiness, remained functional despite the problem.

We have contacted the ISP involved, but they have yet to fix their
problem, and they keep sending the post, hundreds of them every hour.  We
finally fixed the problem on our end by blocking the loop at our router. 
The mail lists remained up throughout the ordeal, just running slow.  The
websites hosted on the same machine continued to be available as well.  
Another big thank you to our SysAdmin, Abel McClendon, who has been
devoting large amounts of his time to keeping our server running and
adding new features and services as well.

If you subscribe to a VOICE list, be aware that unless you explicitly
subscribe an address in the body of the post, our Mailing list server uses
the From address in your post.  If that is incorrect or mangled to prevent
SPAM, you will be subscribed with an invalid address and any list posts
will just bounce.  Most only cause a minor headache for the list
moderators.  This one happened to cause a bigger then usual one. :-(

To subscribe a specific address to the VOICE News List send the following
text to majormajoratos2voice.org

SUBSCRIBE NEWS myatemail.address
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- The VOICE Newsletter will be 3 days late this month.  We plan to go live
on April 4th.  This is due to several hardware problems on the part of the
editorial staff, as well as the couple of days lost when our server was in
transit to it's new location.   The April issue will have articles on:

    OS/2 Warp 4 Merlin Convenience Pack 
    Emacs 20.6.1 under OS/2 -  Part II - Additional Setup 
    Using the Toshiba PDR-M4 Digital Camera with OS/2 via USB
    Snakes and Hammers: Ogg Vorbis
    Networking FixPaks under OS/2 Warp
    The Free Files - Vol. 6  We make Music - Part 2

- Finally, I received a very nice note of thanks from Dan Casey's parents
today.

"Thank you very much for remembering our son Dan with your generous gifts
to the Edelweis House.  Though I don't know you, I feel a closeness
through Dan, for he spoke often of his friends at VOICE.  He was committed
to that organization, and from the outpouring of email and condolences, he
treasured your friendships.  We feel the sorrow you have with us, but
please know that we are truly comforted by your thoughtfulness.

Should "Warpers" ever convene in Indianapolis, we would love to welcome
you to our family.

Most Sincerely,
Marguerite and Dan Casey"


                           
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