I'm not sure who to point this out to, so may as well list it here.
There's a six-day hole in the August archives for wikien-l, between http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-August/027229.html (Mon Aug 8 04:14:26 UTC 2005) and http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-August/027237.html (Sun Aug 14 05:46:43 UTC 2005).
Any idea why, and if it's salvageable?
-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
On 29/12/05, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
There's a six-day hole in the August archives for wikien-l, between http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-August/027229.html (Mon Aug 8 04:14:26 UTC 2005) and http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-August/027237.html (Sun Aug 14 05:46:43 UTC 2005).
Any idea why, and if it's salvageable?
The mailing list server(s) suffered some sort of catastrophic meltdown and the data they contained was lost. The developers had to reinstate a week-old backup of the entire mailing list server, including bans and subscriptions (on multiple, if not all, lists). This meant that users who had unsubscribed during that week started getting list mail again and those who had subscribed stopped getting the mail. It was very inconvenient.
I'm not sure if it would be possible to salvage that gap in the archives. Sure, many people have list emails archived in their mail programs, but how would we transfer them across? This is a question for the Brion Vibbers and Tim Starlings of this world.
~Mark Ryan WikiEN-l mailing list administrator
On 29/12/05, Mark Ryan ultrablue@gmail.com wrote:
The mailing list server(s) suffered some sort of catastrophic meltdown and the data they contained was lost. The developers had to reinstate a week-old backup of the entire mailing list server, including bans and subscriptions (on multiple, if not all, lists). This meant that users who had unsubscribed during that week started getting list mail again and those who had subscribed stopped getting the mail. It was very inconvenient.
Thanks - sounds nasty.
I'm not sure if it would be possible to salvage that gap in the archives. Sure, many people have list emails archived in their mail programs, but how would we transfer them across? This is a question for the Brion Vibbers and Tim Starlings of this world.
It's not a significant problem - I had been looking for something to quote, but have a local copy of the relevant email anyway. I just wanted to flag it in case it was a simple "we just need to tweak a file, oops" problem.
-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk