BLACK-L Archives

From: Erin Bradford <>
Subject: [BLACK-L] Online: The New Search Engine Server
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 23:09:54

Hello everyone, This was sent to me today by Brian Leverich of RootsWeb.
This is especially useful for new members to our lists, but useful to
everyone. Please don't overload the system though:) and if you can't
access the sites, just try back later, they are new are still being tested
to an extent and a lot of people are going to be trying these places at
once so be patient if you can't get right in. For those of you who have
donated money to rootsweb, you can give yourself a little pat on the back
because it's thanks, in part, to your contributions that made this search
engine possible. For those that haven't, this is what your money goes
for:) Also towards the end there is a short explanation of future projects
that donors money will go towards. Good luck.

Erin Bradford

Listowner for Barringer, Black, Bradford, Coventry, Eller, Hackett, and Kern
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6106/genlinks.html (+800
genealogy links)
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/listdex/index.html (Homepage for surname lists
above)

>The new search engine server is now online and can operate at the
>speed of a full T1 connection.
>
>Courtesy of hacks by Dale Schneider, you can search the USGenWeb
>Archives, now with *headlines* and *updated* to within the last 24
>hours, at:
>
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm
>
>Courtesy of hacks by Karen Isaacson, you can search the archives of
>any mailing list (except those withdrawn by the listowner), now with
>nicer *formats* and *updated* to within the last 24 hours, at:
>
>http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
>
>I'd also like to explicitly thank the folks who provided the
>resources that have made this new facility possible:
>
>o RootsWeb's Patrons, Donors, Sponsors, and Members.
>
>o Palladium Interactive, developers of the Ultimate
> Family Tree software for genealogists.
>
>Folks interested in helping RootsWeb provide new facilities can
>become Members by using the Web form at:
>
>http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html
>
>By the way, the next server we'll be bringing online will be a box
>dedicated to supporting Marc Nozell's HTMLized versions of the
>mailing list archives. We should have that box online within 48
>hours, though it's reasonable to expect Marc to need a little time
>after that to get his software installed. (:
>
>Projects after that include a dedicated IRC server, upgrading the
>mail hub, upgrading the main Web server, building a NT-based
>FrontPage server, bringing a "dirtylists" list server online, and
>bringing a third ordinary list server online.
>
>[ The "dirtylists" server is for the big, rarely used announcement
> lists. We've developed a number of those things with 5,000 to
> 300,000 subscribers, and every time a post drops we kick the
> daylights out of the list server with hundreds or even thousands of
> bounces. We need a specially tuned box to handle these turkeys. ]
>
>No rest for the wicked, I suppose ... Cheers, B.
>
>
>
>
>--
>Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L
>RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/
>P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798
>
>

This thread:

• [BLACK-L] Online: The New Search Engine Server by Erin Bradford <>