Archive maintenance
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:35 am
I had the list server shut down most of last night, so I could finally
reconstruct the rebel-builders archive. Over the years the message archives
had gotten broken up into several different pieces, and I've been wanting to
rebuild a single database with all the messages in it in chronological
order. This amounted to 17,931 messages... from 3 different databases with
about 24,000 messages combined, so it wasn't simply a matter of combining
them... I wanted to accomplish this without duplicates. Once a new database
was constructed, the list server had to be allowed to "send" all these
messages to reset the message pointers... to accomplish this I unsubscribed
everybody from the lists... then subscribed you again when it was finished.
If you received a "Welcome" message, this is why.
Anyway, mission accomplished. You will now find a single archive conference
for the builders list, with every message ever posted. This should make
searching the archives much simpler.
Mike
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reconstruct the rebel-builders archive. Over the years the message archives
had gotten broken up into several different pieces, and I've been wanting to
rebuild a single database with all the messages in it in chronological
order. This amounted to 17,931 messages... from 3 different databases with
about 24,000 messages combined, so it wasn't simply a matter of combining
them... I wanted to accomplish this without duplicates. Once a new database
was constructed, the list server had to be allowed to "send" all these
messages to reset the message pointers... to accomplish this I unsubscribed
everybody from the lists... then subscribed you again when it was finished.
If you received a "Welcome" message, this is why.
Anyway, mission accomplished. You will now find a single archive conference
for the builders list, with every message ever posted. This should make
searching the archives much simpler.
Mike
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username "rebel" password "builder"
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