On Feb 27, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Bill Verity wrote:

> We have several lists with very large archives -- over 400meg and/or
> over 10 years worth of mail.  When anything happens to these lists,
> it obviously strains the server and sometimes we crash.  Would there
> be any advantage to aggregating some previous years into single
> yearly files rather than monthly or weekly files.  There would be
> fewer files, but they would be larger.  It would certainly tidy up
> the various archive web pages.

Bill, what Listserv version are you running and what's your OS and
hardware environment? Also, what do you mean by "when something
happens to these lists?"

> If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?

Hmmm! I guess Webster could crosscheck against Oxford's dictionary, or
vise versa.

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Stan Horwitz
Temple University
Enterprise Systems Group
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