In case some of you missed Brian's post about the new auto query and auto obit's, plus mailing lists, new equipment and future expansion and 'space'... I am reposting this... Please feel free to post to this list your genealogy, your comments, your questions, etc. anytime. The list was set up for this purpose for Henderson the mother county of Webster and Union If you have a problem - bring it to me at kyseeker@comsource.net KYHENDER-L has far less traffic than many county lists. Hi all - I'd like to announce the birth of cgi.rootsweb.com, a Pentium II 233 MHz machine with 256 MB of 10ns SDRAM, 4 GB of IDE ultraDMA system disk, and a 9 GB Cheetah ultrawide ultrafast SCSI drive for user programs. This server rocks. (: "cgi" is the production twin to the little "test" server. We plan to be running mod_perl on "cgi"'s Apache server, so perl performance should be very good for programs that have been designed to run in that environment. In the short run "cgi"'s primary users will be the Surname Helper project, the KY query system project, and a major virtual domain that is moving to RootsWeb. In the long run, we'll be opening "test" and "cgi" to any RootsWeb Webmaster who wants to develop their own cgi-bin facilities. Please be patient for a bit and don't ask me for help in using the box for new projects, though, until after the query systems have settled in and I've finished the other server upgrades I'm working on. Members of the sysadmin team who need root should drop me a note and make sure I have your fax/phone numbers, and the queries folks who need user accounts should also contact me. My next project is bringing up the new search engine server, which will get the USGenWeb Archives and mailing list archives reindexed and give Marc Nozell plenty of room to bring his HTML mailing list archiver back on line. After that, I'll be doing a major upgrade to the Web server. Besides making the machine bigger and faster, this upgrade should let us install Isearch on the server so Webmasters can build efficient indexes for their Websites. After that, I'll be doing a major upgrade to the mail hub, which is just a little 486-133 and keeps getting swamped just trying to handle the feeds to the big list servers. After that, I'll probably be working through the big mail servers and doing memory upgrades and those guys. They're all 256 MB machines, but it looks like they'd be happier at 512 MB or even 1 GB. No rest for the wicked, at least not for awhile yet. Cheers, B. -- Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com Betty Sellers