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Jeff Breidenbach | 15 Apr 2013 03:45

Postini alternative

Dear List Admins,

This is a question for some of the expert spam-fighters out there.
As you might imagine, The Mail Archive is on the  receiving 
end of a fair amount of email spam. We currently reduce some
of that inbound spam using a service called Postini Message 
Filtering. Unfortunately that service is being phased out so
so we are looking at alternatives. Does anyone have a particular 
favorite amongst the spam filtering services?
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Greg Freemyer | 21 Mar 2013 15:31
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Please remove opensuse-offtopic from your archives

Mail-archive admins,

It has come to my attention that you have made the content of
opensuse-offtopic available to the public.  Apparently this began last
summer (2012).

The list is designated as a non-archived list and by design should not
be archived anywhere.

Please unsubscribe and delete your existing archive.

To confirm this is a legitimate request I have cc'ed Henne Vogelsang
who is the list administrator and linked to emails discussing the
issue:

http://www.mail-archive.com/opensuse-offtopic-stAJ6ESoqRxg9hUCZPvPmw <at> public.gmane.org/msg06558.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/opensuse-offtopic-stAJ6ESoqRxg9hUCZPvPmw <at> public.gmane.org/msg06559.html

Thanks
Greg
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Jeff Breidenbach | 6 Jan 2013 07:41

Happy 2013

Happy New Year.

As The Mail Archive enters its 15th year of operation, let's take a
quick look back. This year we had a record uptime percentage of
99.69%. That number jumps to 99.96% if you forgive the day we were
deliberately dark in protest of the proposed SOPA law in the United
States. There are two reasons for the improvement. First, switching
all messages over to solid state storage mid-year really helped; the
disk subsystem used to lockup every few months, and that has gone
away entirely. Second, internally we paid a lot more attention to
this topic. Which you can see from the heckling I took during an
operating system upgrade last week. (Warning: strong language.)
http://www.mail-archive.com/heckle.html

The message page redesign was also a lot of fun. We used the services
of a professional designer, paying particular attention to recent web
standards. The process even included a usability study under controlled
conditions. Thanks to everyone who has provided feedback so far.

Finally, as you may know, I grew up in Vermont, and was inspired by
the business example set by Ben & Jerry's. While we didn't give away
any free ice cream, we continued our charter of donating a portion of
revenue to good causes. Aside from computer-ish stuff, this year
included welfare of animals, a forestry organization, and a
sustainable energy initiative. Less well known is our goal of having
fun. 100% of The Mail Archive staff is now trained in TIG Welding (just
in case). We also got to experience flying in a zeppelin over the San
Francisco Bay, which was pretty amazing. That's possibly a little more
fun than our financials would really encourage, but fortunately things
continue to be sustainable and healthy.

I wish a happy and healthy new year to everyone, and to every byte
of data.

Cheers,
Jeff

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Jeff Marshall | 25 Nov 2012 16:32
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New look to Mail Archive message pages

We have been working on a new design for The Mail Archive message pages.  The goal has been to visually bring you to the message content faster.  The subject and message are right there at the very top left of the page now.


We've been finding and fixing bugs with the new design the last few weeks but please alert us to all the edge cases we've neglected to find ourselves!

Feedback and bug reports are desired.

Thank you

Jeff
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Jeff Breidenbach | 1 Nov 2012 02:39

localization request

The Mail Archive currently supports 30 different languages. As we work on a new site design, there are some new words to translate. If you speak one of the languages below, please follow the link to see a preview of the upcoming design. If you see any English words in the user interface, it means they lack translation and we would be grateful for help. If you wish to help, please send me a private email translating the words below. Also please let me know if you would like your name listed in the "Thank you" section of The Mail Archive's FAQ. I should have translations deployed within 24 hours of receipt. 

Cheers,
Jeff

PS. I'm aware that there is some extra layout work to do on right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew.

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Jeff Breidenbach | 28 Aug 2012 08:12

site design

Hello all,

The Mail Archive is now 14 years old (that's a long time in dog
years) and we've been thinking about some design updates.
The mockup below is intended for visitors from global search
engines. Direct visitors will continue to have no advertisements.

I hope that the proposed design is an improvement. We have
already done some formal user testing, and now want to get
thoughts from expert users, including folks who currently entrust
data to the service. Any opinions or thoughts are appreciated,
especially specific suggestions.

Also don't get too excited; even if everything goes smoothly it will
probably be several months from deployment. Thank you for
your time.

Cheers,
Jeff

http://www.maxdesign.com.au/jobs/318-mail-archive/38.htm

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Ralph Corderoy | 30 Jun 2012 13:47
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archive@... Slow to List New Posts?

Hi,

I'm waiting for some subscription confirmations to turn up at
http://www.mail-archive.com/archive-piJqB+B6DfPJghKJT/UW3w <at> public.gmane.org/.  The latest as of
writing is

    Reminder: Jessica Brown invited you to join Facebook...
    Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:21:22 -0700

Is it updating OK?

Cheers, Ralph.

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Christian Lohmaier | 25 Jun 2012 17:29

Archived-At links for new mails not working anymore (since June-10)

Hi Jeff, *,

Is a cronjob stuck? It seems that the archived-at links don't work for
messages sent since 2012-06-10.

Old links work, but new ones give a 404...

ciao
Christian

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Jeff Breidenbach | 25 May 2012 07:20

infrastructure update

For many years, The Mail Archive has run with a high replication factor for storage - usually 7X. This helps with performance; more drives help serve more requests. It helps with reliability; disk failure is no big deal when there are many more just like it. And we splice full backups right off the replication set with no downtime.  For the record, we've had 5 disk failures over the last 4 years without causing any problems.

Two weeks ago we added a new replica, using solid state drives instead of spinning magnetic disks. This is performing brilliantly. We read almost entirely from the solid state drives, which serve data about 10 milliseconds faster. Load dropped from about 7 to 2 on the primary computer, since it no longer waits on the storage system. Batch operations like site map generation are much faster. We should be able to handle significantly more traffic. Best of all, we still retain the safety benefits of replication to low cost magnetic disk.

It used to be that The Mail Archive replaced its computer setup every year. This setup is definitely the exception; I'm really impressed with how well the generation 8 server has held up, and how easy it was to get a dramatic increase in performance just by swapping out some parts. In summary, things are alive and well.

-Jeff
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Jeff Breidenbach | 18 Jan 2012 06:05

Dark for 24 hours, starting now

The Mail Archive is now dark.

We will be offline for 24 hours in protest of proposed US censorship laws.

-Jeff
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Jeff Breidenbach | 16 Jan 2012 22:06

SOPA blackout Jan 18, 2012

The Mail Archive will be participating in SOPA Blackout Day. On January 18th, 2012 we will be dark.

The Stop Online Piracy Act H.R.3261 (and PIPA, its sister bill S.968) is a proposed United States law, please read it yourself. The basic goal of the bills is to censor all access to non-US websites involved with copyright violation. We feel there are some fundamental flaws with the proposed legislation.

Lawrence Tribe, a Harvard Constitutional Law Professor points out

1) "Although SOPA's supporters have described the bill as directed at "foreign rogue websites," the definitions in the bill are not in fact limited to foreign sites or to sites engaged in egregious piracy."

2) "To compound the problem, SOPA provides that a complaining party can file a notice alleging that it is harmed by the activities occurring on the site "or portion thereof." Conceivably, an entire website containing tens of thousands of pages could be targeted if only a single page were accused of infringement."

3) "In effect, the bill would impose the very monitoring obligation that existing law (in the form of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998) expressly does not require. SOPA would undo the statutory framework that has created the foundation for many web-based businesses."

As a public email archival service, we are very aware and appreciative of America's long history of free speech. We don't usually feel like a cog in a censorship machine. Except for the 153 deletion requests from list administrators, 4 DMCA takedown notices, and 36 suppression actions by global internet search engines in 2011. That's on a corpus of 100+ million messages. Now imagine getting sued or criminally prosecuted for a message that links to some shady portion of the internet? Or when someone forwards a copyrighted article to a mailing list? The Mail Archive has proudly provided archival service for 14 years. But in the end, we are a three person, part-time small business. If SOPA passes, each of us will have to think: We have families. The risk looks enormous. 
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