----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 8:33
PM
Subject: [ROSEN] List Issue: Dual
Archives
To
all,
When I
originally set up the list, I enabled the archiving of list messages on
Lsoft's server. This was a quick and painless way to have a searchable archive
of list posts. These are the archives located here:
But, I saw three
problems with this archive:
1) Cost - As
time goes on, I have to buy more archive space from Lsoft, and I will have to
keep paying for it over the years to maintain them.
2) These
archives were not being indexed by search engines like Google, so the archival
"value" was not really being used.
3) Lsoft
provides no way to hide or mask users email addresses. This means that spam
merchants could potentially harvest email addresses from these archives. This
might make some folks who try to keep their email address private hesitant to
post.
Some months ago,
I created the archives that are located on my website. This is done
utilizing some Perl freeware, and has been used for some extremely large
archives. These are the archives located here:
The benefits
are:
1) Hides email
address of posters.
2) It uses
diskspace I was already paying for.
3) It is
searchable with Google, etc.
4) Somewhat
customizable layout.
My question is
this: Would any one object to, or think of a reason not to, disable the
Lsoft-based archives? Is there some value or importance there that I am
missing?
One
other option I have would be to maintain the status quo storage on Lsoft,
and simply delete the oldest monthly archives as time goes on to keep
the diskspace from filling up. At the current rate, I imagine the space
would hold roughly the latest 18 months of archives comfortably.
But I
wonder if this might not end up being needlessly confusing by having partial
archives in one location (Lsoft) and complete archives elsewhere; hence, the
thought that I might as well just shut off the Lsoft
archives.
Tim