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+# State of the Thunix - May 09, 2019
+
+Another month, another update!
+
+Not too much to announce, as far as front end changes. New user requests
+should happen much faster now that we've written/stolen a tool from
+tilde.team that we can use to expedite user creation, and automation of
+a bunch of the steps we take to onboard users.
+
+We're considering adding in user aging for accounts. Lots of accounts
+get created, and then never logged into. This can actually post a
+security problem for the system, as often times, accounts get created
+now, to be used months from today for botnets and the like. Let us know
+what your thoughts are on a reasonable time to age off users. At this
+time, I am personally leaning towards 180 days. Plenty of time to log
+into your shell, and use it a bit. And, once every 6 months isn't much
+to ask, since we expect members to actually contribute to the community,
+anyways.
+
+We've terminated one account already for running a botnet member from
+here, and we'll keep a vigilant eye for any others.
+
+This leads to another point: Just running a znc process doesn't count
+for login. Neither does checking your email. You'll need to actually log
+into the shell, in order to reset the counter. You should, anyways,
+since we have a lot of services internally, that we don't offer external
+access too.
+
+We are also looking at terminating the minecraft and minetest instances
+here. If anyone is using them, speak up now, or forever hold you peace!
+Not really. We wouldn't be deleting anything, just shutting down the
+processes, and removing them from the backup scheme.
+
+We do need to welcome our newest sysadmin here: fosslinux. Give them a
+warm welcome if you see them around.
+
+And again, any questions, or concerns, feel free to drop myself, or any
+of the other admins a line.
+
+Ubergeek/ub3g33k