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[i erbs]

Thanks for the update. I really appreciate your time, energy and magic to
keep all the plates spinning.
Cheers

Ira Erbs
1959 AH 100-6
1967 MGB
Milwaukie, OR

On Thu, Jan 6, 2022, 8:45 AM Mark Bradakis via Healeys <
healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

> First off, I made a slight change to the footer for the real time
> messages so that clicking on the second archive link takes you right to
> the healeys archive, not the top level Team Net archive list.
>
> And no, when you type something into the search string box, it searches
> the ENTIRE healeys archive, you do not have to do it on a month by month
> basis.  For a while I was looking into having the capability to search
> the archives of ALL lists, as there are many problems that Healeys,
> Triumphs, MGs et al have in common.  That seemed an insurmountable task
> given the tools at hand.
>
> That being said, I am not sure how long those archives will be
> searchable.  Currently the search engine behind it all is based on
> MhonArc and Namazu, some software written decades ago, hasn't been
> supported for years, no bug fixes, no maintenance patches, nothing like
> that.  It is basically, rusty, rotten software that I have been keeping
> together with bubble gum and bailing wire, like a 60 year old British car.
>
> I run Fedora 29 on the Team Net server.  The current Fedora version is
> 35.  But if I update Team Net, the versions of perl and python would get
> updated, and would most likely completely break the current archive
> collection and search capability.
>
> I could just say, "Too bad.  It's gone."  But there is TONS of info
> collected in the 30 years of email that has flowed through this
> machine.  It is nice to have it available.  And maybe using Google would
> be enough.
>
> Or maybe there are up to date, actively supported email/archive/search
> packages out there that would be a vast improvement over the rickety
> house of cards that is the current situation.  Or maybe after over 30
> years I could just say goodbye, and pull the plug.  The end of the road.
>
> But I really don't want to do that.  I am 67, been doing Team Net nearly
> half my life.  Sometimes hard for me to believe that such a
> scatterbrained procrastinator like me, the man behind the curtain, has
> kept the bits flowing for all these years.
>
> We shall see what happens as we motor on in to our 4th decade of
> Team.Net - the dot is not silent.
>
> mjb.
>
>
>
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