[Tango-L] ADMIN: Update on Tango-L archives

[Tango-L and Tango-A Administrator]

Some news on the Tango-L archives (as you recall it went down a couple 
of weeks ago, but came back up a few days later, but the incident raised 
questions as to its long-term viability in its current location).

1. The bad news is that Lucy Lynch, who used to maintain the archives at 
her University of Oregon account, is no longer with the University, and 
while her account will remain active for some time longer, she will have 
less control over it as time goes on, and it cannot be relied upon as a 
permanent repository.

2. The good news is that it is being transferred, and to the Tango-L 
website at that (at www.tango-L.com/archive/Tango-L). Currently the year 
2003 archives are installed for testing (you can check it out there, 
although the search function is not yet implemented locally). Probably 
the rest of them will be installed in about a week, depending on time 
availability.

3. The even better news is that I recently moved the Tango-L website to 
a new Unix-based server (partially for this reason and partially owing 
to poor support from the prior hosting company) and it appears that the 
archive software can be installed to this new server, where it will work 
essentially as it does now on the uoregon site. Stay tuned for more on this!

4. A longer-term project is to include all the old postings from 1995 to 
the archive as well and in the same searchable format--I have these all 
in my personal archives but they need to be converted into a format 
suitable for web presentation and search--and it looks like this should 
be possible as well.

5. Note that since May 2006, a parallel set of archives (different 
software and user interface) are also being maintained by the mailman 
software at mit.edu, so there is some redundancy in the system.

The Tango-A posts will also be archived in a similar way, but that's a 
lower-priority project since Tango-A posts are more transitory in nature 
and of more limited historical value once the event in question has 
passed. However, once I've worked out the system for the Tango-L 
archives, the Tango-A ones should be straightforward.

Shahrukh Merchant
Tango-L and Tango-A administrator
tango-L-owner at mit.edu