Re: The Mail Archive, 2016

Thank you for providing an excellent service!


> On Jan 3, 2017, at 12:32 AM, Jeff Breidenbach <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> A lot of crazy stuff happened in 2016. Looking back, what parts
> of that touched The Mail Archive? 
> 
> Let's start with mundane computer stuff. Uptime was great, the service
> was online for the entire year except for 9 hours, 12 minutes. Some
> additional hard drives were converted to SSD, and some RAM was added
> just to make things a little faster. Our SSL certificate vendor
> surprised us when they were bought by another company. We plan to change
> vendors in 2017, and will be dropping the extended validation
> certificate as part of this. Software was very stable. The most visible
> improvement was making The Mail Archive's homepage mobile friendly, but
> there were a few behind the scenes tweaks especially to the search
> engine. Version control says only about 600 lines code changed in total
> over the year.
> 
> In July, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen decided to stop running Gmane, which is
> another long running email archiving service. We offered him support
> (mostly emotional!) and so far it looks like that service has transferred
> to new hands. Hopefully that will be successful. It's another reminder
> just how much people behind infrastructure matter. In November, we
> changed policy to make message deletion a little easier than before. So
> far there has not been a significant difference in the number of
> requested deletions. From a traffic perspective, overall visitors
> continues to decline. We are keeping an eye on this and will make
> adjustments as appropriate. This year we donated to The Marine Mammal
> Center, Doctors Without Borders, and Planned Parenthood.
> 
> As always, thank you for using the service and I hope we can contribute
> positively to 2017.
> 
> Jeff
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