[Imc-aotearoa-tech] Re: Cities list, nz subdomain and general issues

[Danyl Strype]

Kia ora koutou,

Quoting "finn c." <finn at animal-liberation.org.nz>:

>> This must be deliberate, the cities list is a file which
we automatically fetch from the global server <<

Ahh automation ;)

>> there's no way in which parts of it could become out of
date [unless there is a mistake in the cities database,
which is possible..] <<

That´s what I was thinking might be the case. Question is
who is responsible for updating that database?

Also, I have emailed both dns (which according to the tech
wiki is its own list) and imc-tech about getting the
nz.indymedia.org pointed at the right place (cc´d to
imc-aotearoa) to no avail.

I went through some of the global lists last night and a lot
of them are spamtraps. Communications from people unfamiliar
with the global network´s structure are ending up randomly
all over the place - imc-editorial is a good example. 

Once we have finished with AIM migration, convergence etc I
am going to have a look at the list ecology project and put
some work into that. I think it has the potential to improve
the effectiveness and transparency of global network process
in general.

Another issue that needs some tech/ ed work is the
global.indymedia.org site. It is meant to be the place where
all indymedia volunteers can participate in discussion about
issues like open-publishing, networking etc without having
to join lots of lists. At the moment it seems relatively
abandoned and the open publishing does not appear to be
working. I posted a proposal about improving it but it still
hasn´t shown up.

RnB,
Strypey

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