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
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