great resource! thank you and congrats on getting it done! On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 7:00 AM, <mcn-l-requ...@mcn.edu> wrote:
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Re: Searchable MCN-L archive is complete (Chuck Patch) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Matt Morgan <m...@concretecomputing.com> > To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l@mcn.edu> > Cc: > Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 11:27:23 -0400 > Subject: [MCN-L] Searchable MCN-L archive is complete > For many years MCN-L's online archive was only spottily indexed by search > engines and so wasn't super-usable. Starting last fall I began to fix that, > and Rob Lancefield joined me a few months ago to make the new, > fully-searchable archive as complete as it can be (Rob had obsessively > saved older MCN-L messages that weren't even in the current MCN server's > archive!). It's now all done, and available at > > https://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l%40mcn.edu/ > > and it has a pretty great advanced search, too (start with a simple search > and then it'll offer more options). > > The "messages by date" interface only shows the most recent 3000 or so > messages, but try the advanced search, and you'll see that (thanks to Rob!) > the messages go back to 1996 ... the very beginning of MCN-L. Check it out: > > https://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l%40mcn.edu/msg09558.html > > You might also, with crafty advanced searching, see that a handful of > messages are erroneously time-stamped in 1970, the beginning of Unix time > (thank your system admin if this never happened at your employer). But > sadly, they actually came from much later. > > If you ever lose the link, it's in the footer of every MCN-L message. > Enjoy! > > Best, > Matt > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Rob Lancefield on lists <li...@lancefield.net> > To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l@mcn.edu> > Cc: > Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 12:00:34 -0400 > Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Searchable MCN-L archive is complete > Thanks, Matt. Great work! > > Just for the record, everyone, the content we folded in from my saved > postings from the earliest years is somewhat selective, based on pruning I > did for a personal email migration long ago; so there are fewer > announcements and such than were actually posted to MCN-L back in the day. > > That said, it gives a good sense of what topics were in play in the list's > early years--back when, for example, having an "Internet SIG" made sense, > and when locking down Netscape Navigator for kiosks was a thing, and so > on. > > And it does have the MCN-L ur-message! > > cheers, > Rob > > On Sat, May 30, 2015 11:27 am, Matt Morgan wrote: > > For many years MCN-L's online archive was only spottily indexed by > > search engines and so wasn't super-usable. Starting last fall I began to > > fix that, and Rob Lancefield joined me a few months ago to make the new, > > fully-searchable archive as complete as it can be.... > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Chuck Patch <chuck.pa...@gmail.com> > To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l@mcn.edu> > Cc: > Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 13:39:22 -0400 > Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Searchable MCN-L archive is complete > A long time coming, and very welcome. Thanks, you guys! It's a real > service. > > On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Rob Lancefield on lists < > li...@lancefield.net> wrote: > > > Thanks, Matt. Great work! > > > > Just for the record, everyone, the content we folded in from my saved > > postings from the earliest years is somewhat selective, based on pruning > I > > did for a personal email migration long ago; so there are fewer > > announcements and such than were actually posted to MCN-L back in the > day. > > > > That said, it gives a good sense of what topics were in play in the > list's > > early years--back when, for example, having an "Internet SIG" made sense, > > and when locking down Netscape Navigator for kiosks was a thing, and so > > on. > > > > And it does have the MCN-L ur-message! > > > > cheers, > > Rob > > > > On Sat, May 30, 2015 11:27 am, Matt Morgan wrote: > > > For many years MCN-L's online archive was only spottily indexed by > > > search engines and so wasn't super-usable. Starting last fall I began > to > > > fix that, and Rob Lancefield joined me a few months ago to make the > new, > > > fully-searchable archive as complete as it can be.... > > > > _______________________________________________ > > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum > Computer > > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l@mcn.edu > > > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > > http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/ > > > > > > -- > Chuck Patch > Museum Information Management Consulting > 410-929-4571 > > _______________________________________________ > mcn-l mailing list > mcn-l@mcn.edu > http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > -- Tina Shah Senior Web Applications Developer The Art Institute of Chicago tsh...@artic.edu 312-499-4027
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