"Harman Bajwa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Pattie Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Unfortunately, Yahoo stopped archiving the list's >> messages in October >> 2003. Messages sent after that date are stored >> there. > > Seems to be true so far. > > Three things: > First, One has to be a member of that group to be able > to read pre Nov 2003 messages. > Second, there is a convenient search facility at that > page wherein a keyword search takes you to the > mail-archive site with the results (between 2000 and > 2001). > Third: It has a convenient link to the mail-archive > site at the welcome page > > - Harman > PS: Changing the thread subject Actually, the mail-archive search form at Y!G/eos searches from 2000 to the present day. I just haven't got around to changing the text on the HTML page. Those of us who remember the heady days of the EOS List from 10 years ago will recall that Janne Sinkonnen kept the list server, originally on majordomo listserver software, then with Pipermail, with its clunky web interface. Pipermail archived the list traffic until the server was shut down. WJM is now the list owner, but the list functions on majordomo listserver software, and there is no official archive at a1.nl The saga of the Yahoo!Groups archive is interesting too. This began when findmail.com began unofficially archiving the EOS list and many others too. They evolved into eGroups, which had a web interface, before they were bought out by Yahoo and turned into Yahoo!Groups. The archiving was klunky, and the search engine incomplete. In fact, Y!G suddenly stopped archiving the list in Oct 2003 without any explanation. There was not way that I could see to get the archiving to start again. So far, the only (partial) list archive exists at mail-archive.com. I understand that WJM doesn't like the idea of an external archive, but tolerates it (i.e. Doesn't cut off the feed) because of the lack of another solution. I do not know if WJM has Cheers Julian Loke P.S. The List FAQ and List Rules used to be at http://members.rogers.com/jul.loke but my ISP has outsourced to Yahoo!Geocities and I haven't had a chance to update yet. If you really need it, you can pull the old text out of the web archive, but we haven't had a good going flame war for about five years :-) http://web.archive.org/ * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
