Hi all -
CARSON-L is archived on RootsWeb as many already know. The new
threaded archives for this group are at
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/CARSON-L/
Read the message below about the fact a cookie gets set. I know many
people (myself included) are suspicious about cookies, but as you can
see, they do serve a purpose. I trust RootsWeb not to misuse them,
and am glad they are making every effort to keep the email address
harvesters out of the system.
The old archives are still accessible at
http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=CARSON
Note that the -L is needed for the new archiver, and is left off of the
old one. Replace CARSON with other names for the other lists you
want to see.
Margaret Edmondson Olson
olson(a)shout.net
SURNAMES-ADMIN helper and List Manager of:
EDMONDSON-L, PENNOYER-L, GEN-MARKET, CARSON-L, WARREN-L
all at
rootsweb.com, a pretty terrific place I'm proud to help
by being a sponsor/donor.
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 09:35:03 -0400
From: Marc Nozell <marc(a)nozell.com>
Subject: Rootsweb Threaded Archives now available
To: listowners-announce(a)rootsweb.com
Listowners,
Some of you may still be unaware of this announcement that came
through this week's Rootsweb Review.
We are very excited about providing this new service to all Rootsweb
mailing lists and strongly encourage that you take advantage of it for
your mailing list.
On Thursday alone there were over 168,000 hits on the website and
since then the number of archived messages have surpassed 152,607 with
the the number of mailing lists have growing to 1,220!
-marc
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NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB
THREADED LIST ARCHIVES ARE NOW AVAILABLE. Now you can read
122,813 messages from 877 mailing lists using your Web browser by
visiting <
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/>. All those messages are
from just three months of beta tests -- watch this archives grow
with its public debut.
This is a remarkably comfortable way to browse through the posts
that have been made to the lists. Be sure to use the integrated
search engine to find what you are looking for.
To use the Archiver you will need to pick a user name and
password and you will need to accept a cookie. The reason for
passwords and cookies is to keep spammers' e-mail address
harvesters *out* of the archives. Because of this password-and-
cookie feature, listowners can set up lists to be archived with
confidence that they are *not* exposing posters' addresses to
spammers. We encourage all RootsWeb listowners to visit the
Archiver and then include their lists in the archives.
The next step is to start making old list messages available.
Thanks to Marc Nozell for implementing the threaded archives.
It's great work.
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Marc Nozell <marc(a)nozell.com>
http://www.nozell.com