Jack Campin wrote:
>
> > I've been watching how the speed of the discussion on this list has
> > picked up since I put the new fast mailserver in place.
>
> I dunno about the speed (given how slow my machines are I could hardly
> tell) but having a real honest-to-god "From" line at last is a *huge*
> relief.
>
> > I am currently working on putting the entire archive of postings for
> > the list from the past few years online and indexing the postings with
> > Thunderstone search. I know some folks on here are sensitive about
> > having their email addresses visible on the internet. I could avoid that
> > by password protecting the archive(s). If the list members think that is
> > a good solution, or have a better solution, let me know. Thanks!
>
> A better solution would be to edit out the email addresses and replace
> them by names or handles so the archive ends up looking like a typical
> web discussion board (e.g. Mudcat). I don't mind who sees the content
> of what I've written so long as it doesn't lead to even more spam than
> I'm getting now.
>
I could write a script to do that.. I'll just replace anything after @,
but before the . with a bunch of x's.
The fix for the "From" line was actually something that got fixed
automatically by the new version of Majordomo, which I setup when I
upgraded from Sendmail to Postfix on the new machine.
Too bad you can't tell it's faster. It has me pretty excited. I
sometimes sit there and tail the maillogs just to marvel at the speed
and efficiency :-)
Toby
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