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[Martin C <martin AT mchomenet.com>]

Hello Everybody,
After some careful thinking about OpenNIC's goals, the direction it seems to 
be taking (or not taking, as the case may be), the lack of organisation and 
actual stuff happening, as well as the intent to centralise all domain and 
user data, for a system that is supposed to thrive on decentralisation, I 
have decided I must bow out.

I will be closing down .OZ after the 2 and a bit years of maintaining and 
supporting it. If anyone wishes to continue with it, I can provide you with a 
simple database file (or even an SQL dump) containing member usernames, their 
email address, their domain as well as the nameservers they used. This 
will include their MD5'ed password hash as well upon request, but it might be 
easier to just reset them.

I will still be subscribed to this list for as long as I can maintain 
interest, but I will no longer be an active member or contributor here. The 
public 
domain articles I wrote will remain where they are, for anyone to use, but I 
probably wont be writing anymore.

I just can't see any progress happening and it all seems rather stagnant. I'd 
hate for this project to turn into a non-productive exercise for all 
concerned, but it just looks so much like it that I find it hard to describe 
it any other way. Peter Green was right about that.

Yes Jeff, this is why I haven't updated the files. I am also tired of the 
outdated information throughout the wiki, even other members here have 
complained about the iptables stuff not working (which I could confirm), the 
updater scripts being out of date, an immense feeling of Not Invented Here 
syndrome amongst many members with regards to software (so much wasted 
duplication) and everyone seeming to have their own toys and not wanting to 
play 
with others.

So, let me know if anyone wants to take over .OZ. I have two backups that I 
will merge together upon request.

Well, it has been interesting, frustrating and sometimes even fun. But I bow 
out.

Thanks for reading.

Martin C.


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