Some news on the Tango-L archives (as you recall it went down a couple of weeks ago, but came back up a few days later, but the incident raised questions as to its long-term viability in its current location).
1. The bad news is that Lucy Lynch, who used to maintain the archives at her University of Oregon account, is no longer with the University, and while her account will remain active for some time longer, she will have less control over it as time goes on, and it cannot be relied upon as a permanent repository. 2. The good news is that it is being transferred, and to the Tango-L website at that (at www.tango-L.com/archive/Tango-L). Currently the year 2003 archives are installed for testing (you can check it out there, although the search function is not yet implemented locally). Probably the rest of them will be installed in about a week, depending on time availability. 3. The even better news is that I recently moved the Tango-L website to a new Unix-based server (partially for this reason and partially owing to poor support from the prior hosting company) and it appears that the archive software can be installed to this new server, where it will work essentially as it does now on the uoregon site. Stay tuned for more on this! 4. A longer-term project is to include all the old postings from 1995 to the archive as well and in the same searchable format--I have these all in my personal archives but they need to be converted into a format suitable for web presentation and search--and it looks like this should be possible as well. 5. Note that since May 2006, a parallel set of archives (different software and user interface) are also being maintained by the mailman software at mit.edu, so there is some redundancy in the system. The Tango-A posts will also be archived in a similar way, but that's a lower-priority project since Tango-A posts are more transitory in nature and of more limited historical value once the event in question has passed. However, once I've worked out the system for the Tango-L archives, the Tango-A ones should be straightforward. Shahrukh Merchant Tango-L and Tango-A administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
