Re: [E-devel] Geocrawler broken? Dead?

[Tom G. <to...@li...>]

* Lyle Kempler (te...@ke...) wrote:
> * Andrew Shugg (an...@ne...) wrote:
> > G'day folks,
> > 
> > There's been a little concern on the e-users list because the list
> > archives haven't started working.  I'd changed the rollover period to
> > Monthly and had expected a new archive to be created on Geocrawler
> > yesterday (ie September 1st).  However nothing has happened.
> > 
> > Established lists (eg e-devel) are continuing to archive, but it might
> > be that new lists aren't getting created.  According to the "About" link
> > on Geocrawler.com, the Geocrawler service is no longer being maintained.
> > There isn't a date accompanying this announcement so I don't know how
> > long this has been the case.
> > 
> > Does anyone associated with OSDN or VA know what's going on?  I didn't
> > find any mention of it on SourceForge.  I can set up my own public
> > archive for the list but first want to see if anyone knows any more
> > information about Geocrawler's status ...
> 
> We had a similiar problem with e-devel at the beginning of the year.
> E-devel wasn't getting archived for almost 2 months. Finally raster went
> (walked) over to precision iirc, and that got it fixed. I'm not sure
> what's broken about it. Just FYI.

I think that was when someone unsubscribed the geocrawler address from
the list. I seem to recall that's how it works - so you might want to
check it's on the list of members.

Tom.
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