>i've noticed that in the past few days the fukuzawa list gets
>updated only once a day, around 1am Calif time.

Hmm, I seem to have a backlog of over 3000 messages right now, which
is a lot for this time of day. I can think of two possibilities for
the slowdown.

One is that increased load is slowing things down. I just backed off
the search engine indexing to every other day instead of daily - we'll
see if that helps.

The other possibility was a bug fix on July 15 involving mail that is
carbon copied to multiple archived lists. The "slow and careful" code
didn't work very well under load and wasn't doing it's job. The fix
may have slowed down throughput.

Or maybe something else is happening. I'll take a look.

>instead of hierchical? organization to cope with the archive
>holding many mailing list, we could have something like
>dejanews's old "interest finder".  i type in a word, say
>"shark", and a list of newsgroups (or messages) appear that
>contain discussions of sharks.

That sounds like an excellent automatic solution to the
wading-though-thousands-of-lists problem. I like it.  Unfortunately,
I'm not sure I have the computational horsepower to search across all
the archived lists.

Jeff

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