# Gerry | Vanagon

> The preserved Gerry VANAGON LISTSERV archive: searchable weekly indexes and messages from the community mailing list.

## Overview
- Archived mailing-list messages: 513,495
- Weekly archives captured: 2,731
- Coverage: 1994–2026
- Original LISTSERV message URLs are read directly and remain the canonical identity; modern clean message paths remain compatible aliases.

## Primary sections
- [Home](https://gerry.ja1.io/): archive overview and latest activity
- [Archive index](https://gerry.ja1.io/archives): browse preserved mailing-list weeks
- [Archive search](https://gerry.ja1.io/archives/search?q=QUERY): full-text search


## URL structure
- Week index: https://gerry.ja1.io/archives/ind{YYMM}{week-letter}  (e.g. /archives/ind2603a)
- Single message canonical: https://gerry.ja1.io/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2={weekKey}&L=vanagon&F=&S=&P={messageId}
- Compatible clean message alias: https://gerry.ja1.io/archives/{weekKey}/{messageId}/
- Period indexes retain their original /cgi-bin/wa.exe and /archives routes.


- [Service status](https://gerry.ja1.io/status/): dated read-dependency observations, not mail or preservation acceptance
- [Status events](https://gerry.ja1.io/api/v1/status): bounded cursor history; RSS at https://gerry.ja1.io/api/v1/status/feed.xml
- [Capability register](https://gerry.ja1.io/api/v1/capabilities): implementation and acceptance are separate

## Feeds & discovery
- [Readable site index](https://gerry.ja1.io/site-index/): human navigation directory
- [Preservation status](https://gerry.ja1.io/preservation/): dated recovery observations, not completeness claims
- [Machine index](https://gerry.ja1.io/llms-index.json): structured discovery companion
- [People and credits](https://gerry.ja1.io/humans.txt): restoration stewardship and original contributors
- RSS: https://gerry.ja1.io/rss.xml
- Sitemap: https://gerry.ja1.io/sitemap.xml
- Robots policy: https://gerry.ja1.io/robots.txt
- Full LLM context: https://gerry.ja1.io/llms-full.txt
- Machine index: https://gerry.ja1.io/llms-index.json
- Public agent guide: https://gerry.ja1.io/agents.md


## Notes
## Weekly community archives
- Reader: https://gerry.ja1.io/archives/community/
- Index API: https://gerry.ja1.io/api/v1/archive/community-weeks
- Index pagination: at most 52 periods per page; follow data.nextBefore using ?before=YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.000Z until null. windowEnd descending; cursor is exclusive. This is not a frozen inventory across requests.
- Period selection: ?end=YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.000Z
- Cutoff policy: Saturday 23:00 America/New_York, following daylight saving time.
- Finalized forum/email contributions and separately preserved public chat; preparing periods are not public.
- Stored manifests are SHA-256 checked before public reading.
- Chat archival never enrolls participants or creates mailing-list deliveries.
- Schedule policy describes the requested behavior; live archive and digest activation require operational acceptance.


Only independently recovered, header-verified archive content is presented as restored message content. Historical material remains read-only.