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MAFxc Changes

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

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MAFxc Changes

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  1. MAFxc Changes Bob Sutterfield ICCM 1998 June 5-9, Abilene Christian Univ.

  2. 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)

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Growth So Far

  6. 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 a

  7. Search Criteria • Meet user & admin feature requests • hold subscription • see own post • more flexible and forgiving • cleaner digests • more interfaces • ALLfeatures available via email

  8. Search Criteria • Meet user & admin feature requests • Reduce helpdesk traffic • Quicker response • Staff available for other tasks, services

  9. Search Criteria • Meet user & admin feature requests • Reduce helpdesk traffic • Reduce techie involvement • helpdesk backup • maintenance • development

  10. Search Criteria • Meet user & admin feature requests • Reduce helpdesk traffic • Reduce techie involvement • API for future features

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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)

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. Email Access • POP3/IMAP and SMTP • Internet (tunnel only) • Equant (tunnel only) • Dialup • cc:Mail • mobile • Post Office • SMTP gateway

  18. New Security Services • PPTP tunnelling • 40 bit (export) • 128 bit (domestic) • SSH tunnelling • default 1024 bit • Soon: PGP forwarding

  19. 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

  20. Schedule cont. • PGP forwarding • 10/98 early adopters • 11/98 generally available

  21. References, Contacts • http://hub.XC.Org • http://www.Lyris.Com • Conferences: lyris@hub.XC.Org • Service Questions: helpdesk@XC.Org • Planet1: Planet1@XC.Org • Speaker: Bob@XC.Org • +1 909 794 1151

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