<html><body><div><div>Mark!<br></div><div>Thanks for all the magic you do behind the scenes! <br></div><div>Steven Kingsbury<br></div><div>BN1</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 6, 2022, at 8:45 AM, Mark Bradakis via Healeys <healeys@autox.team.net> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>First off, I made a slight change to the footer for the real time <br></div><div>messages so that clicking on the second archive link takes you right to <br></div><div>the healeys archive, not the top level Team Net archive list.<br></div><div><br></div><div>And no, when you type something into the search string box, it searches <br></div><div>the ENTIRE healeys archive, you do not have to do it on a month by month <br></div><div>basis. For a while I was looking into having the capability to search <br></div><div>the archives of ALL lists, as there are many problems that Healeys, <br></div><div>Triumphs, MGs et al have in common. That seemed an insurmountable task <br></div><div>given the tools at hand.<br></div><div><br></div><div>That being said, I am not sure how long those archives will be <br></div><div>searchable. Currently the search engine behind it all is based on <br></div><div>MhonArc and Namazu, some software written decades ago, hasn't been <br></div><div>supported for years, no bug fixes, no maintenance patches, nothing like <br></div><div>that. It is basically, rusty, rotten software that I have been keeping <br></div><div>together with bubble gum and bailing wire, like a 60 year old British car.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I run Fedora 29 on the Team Net server. The current Fedora version is <br></div><div>35. But if I update Team Net, the versions of perl and python would get <br></div><div>updated, and would most likely completely break the current archive <br></div><div>collection and search capability.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I could just say, "Too bad. It's gone." But there is TONS of info <br></div><div>collected in the 30 years of email that has flowed through this <br></div><div>machine. It is nice to have it available. And maybe using Google would <br></div><div>be enough.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Or maybe there are up to date, actively supported email/archive/search <br></div><div>packages out there that would be a vast improvement over the rickety <br></div><div>house of cards that is the current situation. Or maybe after over 30 <br></div><div>years I could just say goodbye, and pull the plug. The end of the road.<br></div><div><br></div><div>But I really don't want to do that. I am 67, been doing Team Net nearly <br></div><div>half my life. Sometimes hard for me to believe that such a <br></div><div>scatterbrained procrastinator like me, the man behind the curtain, has <br></div><div>kept the bits flowing for all these years.<br></div><div><br></div><div>We shall see what happens as we motor on in to our 4th decade of <br></div><div>Team.Net - the dot is not silent.<br></div><div><br></div><div>mjb.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html<br></div><div>Suggested annual donation $12.75<br></div><div><br></div><div>Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys http://autox.team.net/archive/healeys<br></div><div><br></div><div>Healeys@autox.team.net<br></div><div>http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys<br></div><div><br></div><div>Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/airtightproductions@icloud.com<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>