Thank you for providing an excellent service!
> On Jan 3, 2017, at 12:32 AM, Jeff Breidenbach <j...@jab.org> wrote: > > A lot of crazy stuff happened in 2016. Looking back, what parts > of that touched The Mail Archive? > > Let's start with mundane computer stuff. Uptime was great, the service > was online for the entire year except for 9 hours, 12 minutes. Some > additional hard drives were converted to SSD, and some RAM was added > just to make things a little faster. Our SSL certificate vendor > surprised us when they were bought by another company. We plan to change > vendors in 2017, and will be dropping the extended validation > certificate as part of this. Software was very stable. The most visible > improvement was making The Mail Archive's homepage mobile friendly, but > there were a few behind the scenes tweaks especially to the search > engine. Version control says only about 600 lines code changed in total > over the year. > > In July, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen decided to stop running Gmane, which is > another long running email archiving service. We offered him support > (mostly emotional!) and so far it looks like that service has transferred > to new hands. Hopefully that will be successful. It's another reminder > just how much people behind infrastructure matter. In November, we > changed policy to make message deletion a little easier than before. So > far there has not been a significant difference in the number of > requested deletions. From a traffic perspective, overall visitors > continues to decline. We are keeping an eye on this and will make > adjustments as appropriate. This year we donated to The Marine Mammal > Center, Doctors Without Borders, and Planned Parenthood. > > As always, thank you for using the service and I hope we can contribute > positively to 2017. > > Jeff > _______________________________________________ > Gossip mailing list > https://www.mail-archive.com/gossip@mail-archive.com > https://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/mailman/options/gossip -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list https://www.mail-archive.com/gossip@mail-archive.com https://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/mailman/options/gossip
