Hi all,
This is a general update on mail-archive. A lot has been going on. Jeff ---------------- 1) Gossip Mailing List The gossip mailing list is now being run off the mailman software. That means the list has an administrative web page. I've set the list to "moderated" since [EMAIL PROTECTED] has recieved spam in the past. Finally, after moving list subscriptions around so many times, I _think_ I have the right list of names subscribed. Hopefully if anyone was missed, they'll see it in the archive, and if I accidently included someone, they'll let me know. 2) Hardware Mail-archive is running off a shiny new VA Linux "Full-on 2x2" workstation complete with a blue LED. It was a bit pricy, but should provide very solid reliability. I'm especially happy to see the big RAID storage online -- this is a step up from the IDE drives used previously. It took a bit of time transferring everything over, but that is now complete. This is probably the highest level of hardware that I can personally finance. 3) Network All network stuff is now working well. Primary DNS is back up. Nothing is on failover. The main machine is back on VA's community network. All is good -- finally. It's really nice not to be using failover equipment. 4) Code I spent some time paying attention to code; and did about 20 very minor polishing revisions over the past month. Mail-archive has finally switched to a modern Debian system (from an aging RedHat mixed version machine). Some suggestions and patches from users have been incorporated, some are still in queue. Two non-trivial changes were replacing some awk scripts with qmail author Dan Bernstein's mess822, and was generalizing monthly index code crontributed by Paul Mitchell. Mail-archive RDF files still do not appear to be used in a major way by other websites; I'd have thought it might have caught on a bit by now. 5) Summary In summary, I took the time to get Mail-Archive in solid shape, on both the hardware and software side. It should be reasonably well positioned to deal with current load. I took some time off from my day job to do it, as the system needed some attention and I felt it was important. (Plus I wanted some time off from my day job.) It looks like we've finally reached both success and stability, and I don't see major software or hardware juggling in the near future. _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
