classiccmp list archive, digest changes, and a free offer

From: Jay West <west_at_tseinc.com>
Date: Tue Aug 1 19:25:33 2000

Greetings!

Several changes people have been asking about... here's the status....

1) The classiccmp mailing list archives at www.classiccmp.org are now
reworked and up to date. We are still using hypermail which takes the
mailing list traffic and automagically creates the website, organized by
year, month, thread, etc. etc. A background process is *STILL* running to
populate the rest of year 1999 (other years, including 2000, are already
done) but it should be done in an hour or two perhaps (theres a LOT of mail
to process in portions of that year). There is a month or two missing, but
those months are actually missing from the raw datafiles. I assume that the
list was not functioning during those times (before [and perhaps while] it
was being moved to my servers).

2) The hypermail task has been set up as a cron job to keep the mailing list
archives at www.classiccmp.org up to date without operator intervention.
Because the mailing list is hosted by a server sitting right next to the
classiccmp webserver, updates to the archive will be especially fast.

3) Previously, digest subscribers could get multiple digests per day if the
size of the digest was large (ie. it could be split into multiple emails if
the size went over a threshold). Due to popular request, that is no longer
the case. The digest will now send only one email per day to digest
subscribers no matter what the size.

4) Several people have asked - I don't have their email addresses here... so
once again - publicly, to subscribe or unsubscribe send an email to
majordomo_at_classiccmp.org. Any list traffic should go to
classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org. When subscribing you tell it which list you want
to subscribe to, either the normal list or the digest list.

Hope this gets everything in order.

Once again, I will gladly host any website, ftpsite, mailinglist, etc. that
has to do with classic computers at no charge - unlimited traffic, unlimited
storage, no fees of any kind. I am currently connected to 5 major backbones
via 100mb ethernet (and offer local dialup in over 152 US cities [shameless
plug]), so the transfer speeds should be acceptable. The only thing I ask is
that if the disk storage requirements are unusually large (say, greater than
10gb) that you buy your own hard drive and ship it to me. I'll mount it in
one of our servers and the drive will still belong to you and be dedicated
to your use only. If you decide to move, you get the drive back of course.
I'll do this for free, I feel it's something I can give back to the folks on
the list for all the endless advice I've gotten out of it. Ok, if a few
RK05's and 7900A disc drives show up anonymously, I won't complain either
<grin, just kidding>.

It would be nice if we could get a lot of subsites under the
www.classiccmp.org site, sort of like a portal. At the very least we need
some links to classiccmp sites there. Anyone care to throw together a main
page for this (I'm not an html person, and our webdevelopment staff is
working overtime already)? Then all the subsites that folks host on my
server could be at www.classiccmp.org/mydecstuff and
www.classiccmp.org/hprules for example. Of course, if you want your own
domain name that's fine too.

Regards!

Jay West
Received on Tue Aug 01 2000 - 19:25:33 BST