Here's a bunch of news, no particular order.
Cheers, Jeff ================= * The recent programming changes dramatically improved archiving performance, meaning messages are now processed within hours rather than days. The backlog is about 2,000 messages right now, down from about 60,000 messages last week. Enjoy it while it lasts. :) * Web access to mail-archive will be down for a day in about two weeks. My hosting provider is changing physical location. Incoming mail will be queued at a secondary MX during the downtime. This will blow a 260+ day uptime. * During the outage, system memory (RAM) will be doubled to 1GB. This will be used for disk caching which should help performance. * Speaking of disk, usage has risen from 38% (Feb.) to 79% (today) I may look into trimming some obvious fat. * We're transmitting about 2GB a day over HTTP, probably half or more of that to internet search engines. Over a recent two week period, about 200,000 IP addresses requested 2.6 million pages. * I'd like to hold off increasing disk storage until a) ReiserFS makes it into a stable linux kernel b) big cheap IDE RAID-5 arrays become widely available * I intend to brood over the virus-as-attachment issue for a few weeks, thanks for all the great feedback thus far. * I've personally been getting hit with more spam recently, and suspect mail-archive is growing into a bigger target for spambots. Hopefully the anti-harvesting measures are holding. * As the service grows -- and as archive pages start showing up highly in internet search engines -- I'm slowly getting more non-fun email. [private, not stuff sent over gossip] Complaints, very misdirected questions, ugly demands, the ocasional threat. There are a lot of very rewarding aspects of running an email archiving service that continues to grow bigger. I guess there are some thorns as well. Fortunately, things are still managable. _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
