Suggestion:
Let's use the second server for archives.  As of now, the archives are
almost unusable because the searches take too long.  The problem is that the
archives are not "pre-indexed".  There is software that will search the
archives much more efficiently then the software we are currently using.
The package I use for my mailing list, Wilma, updates the archives on a
regular basis and pre-indexes.  So any search, no matter how complex, takes
only seconds.

We can also use the second server as a NNTP server so we can read the
mailing list over a newsfeed.  You would have the option of using a
Newsreader or subscribe to the list with your e-mail address.  Postings from
the newsserver, would be automatically forwarded to the list.  And postings
from the list will be sent to the newsfeed.  In fact, this is how I read the
list, from a newsserver I installed.  Eliminates the need to have 100's of
messages in my inbox.  Plus the messages are threaded. If you want a demo, I
will setup a public account.

Just some ideas.

Take care,

Paul Borghese

>
> > Sounds nifty little though of know of these kinds of needs.
> >
> > Maybe with those slots we could scare up some donations for more RAM.
Right
> > now 256 Mb of PC133 RAM is going for $114 out here.
> >
> > [I remember when the state agency I was with was so proud that they had
> > acquired another meg of 'core storage' {ask if you don't know what that
> > was/is} for just less that $1 million ]
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> > Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 5:07 PM
> > Subject: LIST DONATION: I have a server to replace Gerry!
> >
> > > We are getting rid of a bunch of servers at the Quesnel School
District
> > > where my "real job" is from 8 to 4.
> > >
> > > As the former "manager" of Gerry about 1.5 years ago I remember it
being a
> > > Dual Pentium 90MHz with something like 64MB of RAM running Windows NT
4.0
> > > and I don' think it has gone beyond that as the archive searches are
still
> > > painfully slow.
> > >
> > > I have in my possession a Touch [http://www.touchsystems.ca] Dual
Pentium
> > > Pro 200MHz w 256K Cache on each CPU.  There is a total of 64MB of RAM
on
> > it
> > > (4x 16MB EDO) and if I can remember correctly it is the same stuff our
> > > current HP uses.  There is a total of 8 SIMM slots on this board.  The
> > board
> > > is an Asus P65UP5-P6ND mainboard
> > >
> >
http://www.asus.com.tw/products/Motherboard/Pentiumpro/P65up5-p6nd/p65up5-p6
> > > nd-overview.html  It has worked fine for many years, we have just
upgraded
> > > to a Dual PIII system from IBM.
> > >
> > > Anyhow, if the group can decide we need it - I'm willing to donate it.
> > Else
> > > it would make a perfect server to replace my http://www.volkswagen.org
and
> > > http://www.fastforward.ca server.
> > >
> > > Let's make a decision on this so I can box it up and ship it out!
> > >
> > >
> > > David Marshall
> > >
> > > Fast Forward Autobahn Sport Tuning
> > > 4356 Quesnel Hixon Road
> > > Quesnel BC Canada  V2J 6Z3
> > > mailto:info@fastforward.ca      http://www.fastforward.ca
> > > Phone: (250) 992 7775           FAX: (250) 992 1160
> > >
> > > . Vanagon Accessories and Engine Conversions
> > > . Transporter, Unimog and Iltis Sales
> > > . European Lighting for most Audi and Volkswagen models
> > >
>