Re: [cobalt-users] More Comments on the Lists [SCANNED]

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 06 May 2004 11:57 am, Phil Beynon wrote:

> Hi all,
> Can I just chip a point in here which no one else has mentioned.
> Once the archives are set up on the new servers are all the little
> bits at the bottom of each email saying where to subscribe  or search
> etc going to be adjusted to reflect the new list name / location /
> archive location etc?

That depends where you'll find them.  If we move the list to the qbalt 
server and also move the archive, then ...

> Some sort of monster global search and replace
> type thing I guess.

Yes, it's actually fairly easy to do, though it'll use a whole bunch of 
machine cycles for a while.

> Otherwise it could cause immense confusion to
> anyone finding them on Google or whereever.

People using google will probably find a lot of references to the old 
list-server ; they'll be dead links, and people will then try the 
Google archive, which will have old information.

Unfortunately it takes a lot of time for Google to drop old links.

But the good news is there will be new links, and with a bit of 
crosslinking from the community they'll actually make it into Google 
fairly quickly.  My changes to nobaloney.net get into Google quickly, 
and as soon as the site is moved I'd create links at nobaloney.net to 
the new list-archives.  I hope others will too.

> Does anything need to be done, apart from the normal submission
> method, with Google etc to alert them to the move?

Not really.  They're way to big to care about one site, no matter how 
important, unless that site is spending a lot of money with them.

Jeff
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