[MCN-L] Searchable MCN-L archive is complete

[Tina Shah]

great resource! thank you and congrats on getting it done!

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 7:00 AM,  wrote:

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> From: Matt Morgan 
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
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> Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 11:27:23 -0400
> Subject: [MCN-L] Searchable MCN-L archive is complete
> For many years MCN-L's online archive was only spottily indexed by search
> engines and so wasn't super-usable. Starting last fall I began to fix that,
> and Rob Lancefield joined me a few months ago to make the new,
> fully-searchable archive as complete as it can be (Rob had obsessively
> saved older MCN-L messages that weren't even in the current MCN server's
> archive!). It's now all done, and available at
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l%40mcn.edu/
>
> and it has a pretty great advanced search, too (start with a simple search
> and then it'll offer more options).
>
> The "messages by date" interface only shows the most recent 3000 or so
> messages, but try the advanced search, and you'll see that (thanks to Rob!)
> the messages go back to 1996 ... the very beginning of MCN-L. Check it out:
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l%40mcn.edu/msg09558.html
>
> You might also, with crafty advanced searching, see that a handful of
> messages are erroneously time-stamped in 1970, the beginning of Unix time
> (thank your system admin if this never happened at your employer). But
> sadly, they actually came from much later.
>
> If you ever lose the link, it's in the footer of every MCN-L message.
> Enjoy!
>
> Best,
> Matt
>
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Rob Lancefield on lists 
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
> Cc:
> Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 12:00:34 -0400
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Searchable MCN-L archive is complete
> Thanks, Matt. Great work!
>
> Just for the record, everyone, the content we folded in from my saved
> postings from the earliest years is somewhat selective, based on pruning I
> did for a personal email migration long ago; so there are fewer
> announcements and such than were actually posted to MCN-L back in the day.
>
> That said, it gives a good sense of what topics were in play in the list's
> early years--back when, for example, having an "Internet SIG" made sense,
> and when locking down Netscape Navigator for kiosks was a thing, and so
> on.
>
> And it does have the MCN-L ur-message!
>
> cheers,
> Rob
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2015 11:27 am, Matt Morgan wrote:
> > For many years MCN-L's online archive was only spottily indexed by
> > search engines and so wasn't super-usable. Starting last fall I began to
> > fix that, and Rob Lancefield joined me a few months ago to make the new,
> > fully-searchable archive as complete as it can be
>
>
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Chuck Patch 
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
> Cc:
> Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 13:39:22 -0400
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Searchable MCN-L archive is complete
> A long time coming, and very welcome. Thanks, you guys! It's a real
> service.
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Rob Lancefield on lists <
> li...@lancefield.net> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Matt. Great work!
> >
> > Just for the record, everyone, the content we folded in from my saved
> > postings from the earliest years is somewhat selective, based on pruning
> I
> > did for a personal email migration long ago; so there are fewer
> > announcements and such than were actually posted to MCN-L back in the
> day.
> >
> > That said, it gives a good sense of what topics were in play in the
> list's
> > early years--back when, for example, having an "Internet SIG" made sense,
> > and when locking down Netscape Navigator for kiosks was a thing, and so
> > on.
> >
> > And it does have the MCN-L ur-message!
> >
>

Re: [MCN-L] Searchable MCN-L archive is complete

[Tamsen Young]

A big huge congratulations. This is a tremendous feat and a fantastic
resource. Many thanks!!!

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On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Matt Morgan 
wrote:

> For many years MCN-L's online archive was only spottily indexed by search
> engines and so wasn't super-usable. Starting last fall I began to fix that,
> and Rob Lancefield joined me a few months ago to make the new,
> fully-searchable archive as complete as it can be (Rob had obsessively
> saved older MCN-L messages that weren't even in the current MCN server's
> archive!). It's now all done, and available at
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l%40mcn.edu/
>
> and it has a pretty great advanced search, too (start with a simple search
> and then it'll offer more options).
>
> The "messages by date" interface only shows the most recent 3000 or so
> messages, but try the advanced search, and you'll see that (thanks to Rob!)
> the messages go back to 1996 ... the very beginning of MCN-L. Check it out:
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l%40mcn.edu/msg09558.html
>
> You might also, with crafty advanced searching, see that a handful of
> messages are erroneously time-stamped in 1970, the beginning of Unix time
> (thank your system admin if this never happened at your employer). But
> sadly, they actually came from much later.
>
> If you ever lose the link, it's in the footer of every MCN-L message.
> Enjoy!
>
> Best,
> Matt
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Re: [MCN-L] Searchable MCN-L archive is complete

[Chuck Patch]

A long time coming, and very welcome. Thanks, you guys! It's a real service.

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Rob Lancefield on lists <
li...@lancefield.net> wrote:

> Thanks, Matt. Great work!
>
> Just for the record, everyone, the content we folded in from my saved
> postings from the earliest years is somewhat selective, based on pruning I
> did for a personal email migration long ago; so there are fewer
> announcements and such than were actually posted to MCN-L back in the day.
>
> That said, it gives a good sense of what topics were in play in the list's
> early years--back when, for example, having an "Internet SIG" made sense,
> and when locking down Netscape Navigator for kiosks was a thing, and so
> on.
>
> And it does have the MCN-L ur-message!
>
> cheers,
> Rob
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2015 11:27 am, Matt Morgan wrote:
> > For many years MCN-L's online archive was only spottily indexed by
> > search engines and so wasn't super-usable. Starting last fall I began to
> > fix that, and Rob Lancefield joined me a few months ago to make the new,
> > fully-searchable archive as complete as it can be
>
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Re: [MCN-L] Searchable MCN-L archive is complete

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Thanks, Matt. Great work!

Just for the record, everyone, the content we folded in from my saved
postings from the earliest years is somewhat selective, based on pruning I
did for a personal email migration long ago; so there are fewer
announcements and such than were actually posted to MCN-L back in the day.

That said, it gives a good sense of what topics were in play in the list's
early years--back when, for example, having an "Internet SIG" made sense,
and when locking down Netscape Navigator for kiosks was a thing, and so
on.

And it does have the MCN-L ur-message!

cheers,
Rob

On Sat, May 30, 2015 11:27 am, Matt Morgan wrote:
> For many years MCN-L's online archive was only spottily indexed by
> search engines and so wasn't super-usable. Starting last fall I began to
> fix that, and Rob Lancefield joined me a few months ago to make the new,
> fully-searchable archive as complete as it can be

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[MCN-L] Searchable MCN-L archive is complete

[Matt Morgan]

For many years MCN-L's online archive was only spottily indexed by 
search engines and so wasn't super-usable. Starting last fall I began to 
fix that, and Rob Lancefield joined me a few months ago to make the new, 
fully-searchable archive as complete as it can be (Rob had obsessively 
saved older MCN-L messages that weren't even in the current MCN server's 
archive!). It's now all done, and available at


https://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l%40mcn.edu/

and it has a pretty great advanced search, too (start with a simple 
search and then it'll offer more options).


The "messages by date" interface only shows the most recent 3000 or so 
messages, but try the advanced search, and you'll see that (thanks to 
Rob!) the messages go back to 1996 ... the very beginning of MCN-L. 
Check it out:


https://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l%40mcn.edu/msg09558.html

You might also, with crafty advanced searching, see that a handful of 
messages are erroneously time-stamped in 1970, the beginning of Unix 
time (thank your system admin if this never happened at your employer). 
But sadly, they actually came from much later.


If you ever lose the link, it's in the footer of every MCN-L message.  
Enjoy!


Best,
Matt
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