[plug] SLPWA and automatic PLUG membership

[Dave Dartnall]

Leon Brooks wrote:

>
>Amongst other things, PLUG has been fairly laid-back about asking people for 
>membership dues, and has not clearly delineated the benefits of membership.
>
>One immediate benefit is that you get an account on Spark, which is invaluable 
>for seeing how your site/machine/ADSL link looks to the rest of the world, 
>and in my case for seeing how things work from a machine which I had 
>absolutely no hand in setting up. You also get an additional email address, 
>some web space, and all sorts of other small but occasionally priceless 
>priviledges. For AUD$10 a year ($5 if you're a student), you'd be really 
>struggling to even get advert-free web hosting anywhere else.
>
>No doubt there are other benefits which are more important to you. As a PLUG 
>member, I'd like to see them discussed here and congealed into a FAQ. It 
>might also be worth discussing other ways in which PLUG membership can be 
>differentiated and shown to be more valuable.
>
>
>Cheers; Leon
>
Good comment, Leon - for my part the advice that my PLUG membership 
entitles me to
 'shell, www and email' on the spark system could well be amplified in a 
FAQ.
This advice from Tony, together with the information that I can ssh into 
spark has
allowed me to access a shell account there but I'm not clear about the 
'www and email' bit.

regards
Dave