Harold – as usual YOU ARE Wonderful! Thanks!!!
ho Winter Address 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 301-365-2093 Summer Address 189 Beaucaire Ave. Camden, ME 04843 207-763-3261 Websites www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: OSList [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Harold Shinsato via OSList Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 12:17 PM To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: [OSList] OSList Archive Woes Dear OSList, Please accept my apologies for all the issues you may or may not have been noticing with the OSList archives since last August. DreamHost donates webhosting services to the Open Space Institute U.S. and other 501(c)(3) organizations. DreamHost is a democratic workplace, similar to Haiti Partners, as certified by World Blu. And I use DreamHost for a few other of my own webhosting needs for many years. I have been quite happy with them, except for the issue of our valuable archives. And after many months of conversations with their support staff this issue just keeps not getting addressed, and even has gotten worse. DreamHost has been having server problems for many months and it is affecting all of the email lists that are managed on this server. I've seen other people writing on the internet about this issue with DreamHost - but interestingly - a searchable archive is not an inherent feature of our open source list software Gnu Mailman. And I've not been able to find another hosting company which offers searchable archives like DreamHost does. And all the other list hosting companies cost money (unless we give away control to Google or Yahoo, etc.) Unfortunately DreamHost has given no timelines for the fixing of this issue, and I suspect it will take them months if they ever actually fix it. But as the other services don't seem better, for now at least we stay on DreamHost with the hope we can get a nice integrated searchable archive again. But I've received a suggestion that we can get searchable archives for public lists through www.mail-archive.com, which is a free service supported by advertising. This may take me a week or two to implement. I'll keep you all updated when this secondary archive location is working, and if/when our primary archive location is working again. Thanks for your patience! If you have any other suggestions, I'd welcome them separate from the OSList at [email protected] Warm Regards, Harold -- Harold Shinsato [email protected] http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush>
