I received this message and I am passing to you. Thank for your kind words and cooperation this past year. Season Greeting. Lyle -----Original Message----- From: karen@rootsweb.com <karen@rootsweb.com> To: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com <listowners-announce@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, December 22, 1997 3:22 PM Subject: ADMIN: Information for RootsWeb Listowners >Various bits and pieces of news... > >Contents: >1. Status of the searchable archives on searches.rootsweb.com >2. Status of the threaded archives on lists.rootsweb.com >3. Archives for private lists >4. Archive searches via e-mail >5. New feature: customizing your list settings >6. New feature: customizing your digest "administrivia" >7. Credit cards are out of beta >8. My parents are coming soon > >1. We are temporarily out of disk space on searches.rootsweb.com, >which means there will be a delay before new messages posted to >your lists become searchable. Brian has new hard drives on order >that should be here soon, but of course getting anything delivered >in the days before Christmas is a bit of a gamble. At this point, >the searchable archives are complete for most of the lists on >lists.rootsweb.com (that's most of the lists hosted here) through the >middle of December, and through the end of November for the >other mailing lists (the gatewayed lists, the Norwegian lists, the >lists on the old server, etc.) Due to the constraints on space, >many of the non-genealogical lists are not, at this time, included. >The URL for searching most lists is > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >A few lists (ROOTS-L and some of the gatewayed lists) are accessed instead >through > > http://searches.rootsweb.com > >And yes, getting that split tidied up is on the to do list. > >2. What about the threaded archives, accessible through > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/~archiver > >I hope Marc will stop by and comment, but here's my current understanding. >Disk space is also very tight there. As I said above, Brian has new >drives on order, but it's impossible to promise when they'll arrive >and be installed. (Er, my parents arrive this afternoon.) Due to >concerns about spam-bots sniffing addresses, we have =not= been >automatically including mailing lists in this program. If you want your list >to be included now, visit http://lists.rootsweb.com/~archiver and >follow the instructions Marc has posted there. If you want your list >to be included never, add "archiver@lists.rootsweb.com" to the >reject list for your mailing list (use the "edit selected files" button >at the bottom of your utility page.) If you want your list to be >included, but only after some spam-bot protection has been added, >just sit tight. Brian is hoping to get to that next month, after >the new hard drives are in, etc. > >3. If your list is private and you do not want your archives to >be publicly accessible, then be sure to add "archiver@lists.rootsweb.com" >to the reject list for your mailing list. We are not able at this >time to provide special features for private lists, such as password >protecting the archives, etc. > >4. Awhile back, I said we'd be turning off the e-mail search of the >archives. We probably won't do that, but once the new system is fully >in place, the amount of material available for searching will be >limited to the most recent two to four weeks. This will allow people >who have been on vacation to retrieve digests they missed, etc. >I will not provide any support for the e-mail search. If you can't >get it to work or don't understand it, etc., please use the web >alternatives (see the URLs above) instead. Thank you. > >5. There's a new feature for those of you with utility pages on >lists.rootsweb.com and biglists.rootsweb.com -- near the bottom, >after the link to the taglines editor, you'll find the option to >customize the settings of your list. These include whether replies >are directed to the list, the maximum acceptable message size, how >often the digest is created, etc. > >6. I've had complaints about taglines in digests -- digest readers >are apparently getting confused by the blizzard of directions about >how to unsub from mail mode, etc. I rewired the lists on lists.rootsweb.com >yesterday so that the taglines don't go into the digests (it would >be nice to do some magic on the subject lines, too, but I haven't figured >out how yet). Instead, a single "administrivia" message appears between >the table of contents and the first message. Those of you who didn't >have administrivia messages do now, just a simple one with the "how to >unsub from the digest" directions. You can edit this message by clicking >on the "edit selected files" button at the bottom of your utility page. >The feature isn't currently available on biglists.rootsweb.com but >will be soon. (I hope. Did I say my parents were coming this afternoon?) > >7. Brian comments that our certificate (?) has been renewed and that >the credit card page is now full up. Look for a link near the bottom >of > > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > >8. My parents are arriving this afternoon. So Brian and I, while >around, are probably going to be a bit on the scarce side. Have a >happy holiday! > >Karen >