>Resent-Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 21:03:10 -0700 (PDT) >Old-To: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected] >Old-cc: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <[email protected]> >Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <[email protected]> >Subject: Online: The New Search Engine Server >Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 21:01:00 -0700 >From: Brian Leverich <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/47 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > > > >[ My apologies to the folks who have multiple or incorrect > subscriptions to LISTOWNERS-ANNOUNCE; I'll get that subscription > list cleaned up as soon as I can. -B ] > > >[ This is a public announcement -- it may be forwarded to any > appropriate audience. -B ] > > >The new search engine server is now online and can operate at the >speed of a full T1 connection. > >Courtesy of hacks by Dale Schneider, you can search the USGenWeb >Archives, now with *headlines* and *updated* to within the last 24 >hours, at: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm > >Courtesy of hacks by Karen Isaacson, you can search the archives of >any mailing list (except those withdrawn by the listowner), now with >nicer *formats* and *updated* to within the last 24 hours, at: > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >I'd also like to explicitly thank the folks who provided the >resources that have made this new facility possible: > > o RootsWeb's Patrons, Donors, Sponsors, and Members. > > o Palladium Interactive, developers of the Ultimate > Family Tree software for genealogists. > >Folks interested in helping RootsWeb provide new facilities can >become Members by using the Web form at: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > >By the way, the next server we'll be bringing online will be a box >dedicated to supporting Marc Nozell's HTMLized versions of the >mailing list archives. We should have that box online within 48 >hours, though it's reasonable to expect Marc to need a little time >after that to get his software installed. (: > >Projects after that include a dedicated IRC server, upgrading the >mail hub, upgrading the main Web server, building a NT-based >FrontPage server, bringing a "dirtylists" list server online, and >bringing a third ordinary list server online. > >[ The "dirtylists" server is for the big, rarely used announcement > lists. We've developed a number of those things with 5,000 to > 300,000 subscribers, and every time a post drops we kick the > daylights out of the list server with hundreds or even thousands of > bounces. We need a specially tuned box to handle these turkeys. ] > >No rest for the wicked, I suppose ... 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 [email protected] > Wanda Rabb (researching Rabb (NC/SC), Penix (NC), Bradshaw (VA>NC), (Gantt (NC), Nix, Robertson, Wilson, Conner, Harris (Rutherford Co.,NC), Laws(Yancey, Rutherford Co., NC), Edwards,Kelly (Yancey Co.,NC), Causby, Patton, Morrison, Sparks(Burke/McDowell Co., NC) Paxton (Union Co., NC >Lancaster, SC), Farris & Morris (York Co., SC) Lovelace, Hamrick, Green and McSwain (Cleveland Co., NC), Granger, Ledford, Black(Cleveland or Rutherford Co., NC), Towery (Cleveland or Lincoln Co., NC) Listmanager for CAUSBY-L, RABB-L, FARRIS-L, PAXTON-L, NIX-L, and LAWS-L Editor of online newsletter: WILSONS of Rutherford and Polk Counties, NC Homepage: http://www.netunlimited.net/~wcr Genealogy Main Page: http://www.netunlimited.net/~wcr/main.html