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[Martin C <martin AT mchomenet.com>]

My apologies to all.

A brief bit of history:

When I first joined, I wasn't working and had too much free time. I did 
my part with OpenNIC practically full-time for a bit, then part-time 
once my software was made and my proposal was put forth. I also had to 
"borrow" a VPS as I had no money at the time and the guy gave me free 
reign over it.

I now work full-time and accidentally let my TLD admin duties slip here 
and there. This was by accident. On top of that, around the start of the 
year, I was making some changes to my network here and setting up some 
internal servers so I could host email myself and a few other things. To 
do this, I set all emails from all lists that I am subscribed to to go 
to a specific spot that I hadn't migrated to my main machine yet, and as 
the first few weekends of this year were busy, it just kept being moved 
lower on the list of priorities.

Then I happened to log in and saw the message from Peter. I immediately 
found where the emails were being directed and merged them back over to 
where they had always been and caught up quick smart.

I have not abandoned .OZ, and hopefully the above explains why there 
have been outages: I've not been the one paying the bills till this 
point (the guy that does is very absent minded and forgets to pay his 
own bills a lot) and now that I _can_ be, I still wish to continue on as 
before, but taking on full responsibility for every aspect of it, which 
I was simply unable to before.

I envy those who had/have permanently dedicated resources for OpenNIC 
to offer after all this time and tip my hat to you.

If it be the will of the community, I would still like to be here and 
continue with .OZ. If everyone has made up their mind against it, that's 
unfortunate. If I had any good will stored up from my software 
contributions, press release writing, proposal writing, etc I'd like to 
draw on that before anyone here makes any permanent decisions to give 
.OZ the chop just yet.

Once again, sorry for not being around as much and I aim to remedy 
that. As long as the motion is not passed, I will attain the resources I 
need to keep .OZ going, if it is, hopefully it is appreciated that I 
would not get the facilities back up and running. At the least, I will 
remind my friend to pay his bills so I can get a recent backup. I do 
have one but it's about 2 months old (everything around here stops 
before Christmas :P).

Sorry for the long read.

Martin.

On 2013-02-09 04:40, Peter Green wrote:
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> I contacted the admin' for .oz (Martin C) the other day and he's not
> abandoned the T.L.D.
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> I am surprised and a little sad that he hasn't jumped on this list 
> and
> cleared things up, but please don't abandon the T.L.D. .oz yet.
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> Peter
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