I vote keep the archives. I'll send money to PDML come payday! Cheers, Christine
On Aug 9, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Doug Brewer wrote: > On 8/8/11 10:53 AM, Rick Womer wrote: >> Doug, >> >> Once upon a time, not so very long ago, I reccall there being two PDML >> archives, one of which went back into the 1990s. Is the farther-back one >> now defunct? >> >> Rick > > Sorry I missed this, Rick. The mail-archive.com archive dates back to when I > took over the list, during the Winter of 2000-2001. > > When we moved to the current host, in 2006, I didn't carry over a local > archive, since we were pretty well established on mail-archive by then. There > may be a little gap there around that time, due to propagation and merging > issues, but it's pretty complete. > > This brings up something I'd like to ask The List about. When in April we had > to move to another server, our hosting company realized we were occupying a > largish amount of server real estate, and told me it would cost an extra ten > bucks a month to continue to house the archives. > > At the time I told them to go ahead, but it's stayed in my mind, given that > the mail-archive space gets far more traffic, so let's put it to a vote. Do > we want to keep the local archive, or not? Let me know here or off-list. > > Now would also be a good time to chunk a couple bucks toward the PDML fund, > if you'd like. It's certainly not required, but will help offset some of the > costs. > > Also, I don't think anyone cares one way or the other, but yes, I'm still > here. If you follow me on FB, you know I'm about to disappear into the > time-sink that is grad school, but will continue to monitor. > > Carry on, then. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
