classiccmp list archive, digest changes, and a free offer

From: John R. Keys Jr. <jrkeys_at_concentric.net>
Date: Tue Aug 1 20:39:35 2000

How does one go about updating their address and for phone number on the
rescue list ?? Thanks
John Keys
----- Original Message -----
From: Jay West <west_at_tseinc.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 7:25 PM
Subject: classiccmp list archive, digest changes, and a free offer


> 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 - 20:39:35 BST