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
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Harold Shinsato
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
http://shinsato.com
twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush>
