administrivia: v 9 archives

[Richard Welty <rwelty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

the volume 9 archives are nearly complete; to the extent that they are
complete, they're accessible now (although searching may be slow, as there
is a perl process running on the server which is rebuilding the last 200
messages of v9 and it's not real fast.)

these archives cover from from July 29th 1998 through June 7th 2003.
because of the time span and the volume of messages, and because v7 and v8
never really existed, i've split v9 up into three separate volumes (the ftp
archives of actual digests remain undisturbed; only the web archives have
been meddled with.)

Volume 7:       29 July 1998 through 25 January 1998
Volume 8:       25 January 1998 through 12 May 2001
Volume 9:       13 May 2001 through 7 June 2003

the last 200 messages of the "virtual volume 7" are being rebuilt right
now; the rest is all there. the new server being prepared in my basement is
much faster than the one currently serving as digest.net, so i'm doing
future archive rebuilds there and then transferring the files later. i wish
i'd thought of that early; volume 7 would be done by now.

/bmw/archive/ is the address. please report any
problems to me.

there are two search options:

MARC search -- focused on the archives, places a meaningful load on
the server. please only fetch 10 or 20 responses at a time to avoid
beating the server into submission. the new server will be several times
faster, but i'm migrating from Linux to OpenBSD or NetBSD and there are
a lot of issues to work through.

Google search -- no load on the server, lags behind the archives.
probably completely wrong for the next week or two given the massive
rebuild i've just done.

i'll be looking at rebuilding v6 and earlier digests in a couple of days;
right now i need to put some time into billable hours.

richard
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Richard Welty                                         rwelty@domain.elided
Averill Park Networking                                         518-573-7592
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