We will be upgrading our LISTSERV machine this summer to
faster Sun hardware.   Are you saying there is no way of ensuring
that links to archived articles will continue to work??

Eva Kalman

On Thu, 3 May 2001 14:59:33 -0600, Ben Parker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 [snip]
>I'm guessing that when you upgraded you also moved to a new machine,
copying all
>files.  This is part of the problem.  The message archive indexes
>~/listanme/listname.DBindex and other ~/listname.DB* files should never be
>moved.  Let LISTSERV regenerate them on the new box.  Similarly, the web
archive
>index files ~/listname/listname.INDyymmx should never be moved.  Again, let
>LISTSERV regenerate them on the new box.  At this point I would delete both
sets
>of files, and stop/restart LISTSERV.  Then see if the link now works.
>
>
>>Can anyone shed some light on this situation??  Is linking to a
>>specific message unsupported, as indices are often rebuilt?
>
>Linking to specific messages in the archives will always be problematic.
If the
>archives are edited or moved to a new machine, the links may no longer
work.
>Indexes to the current archive period (week or month) are rebuilt every
time new
>post is made to the list.  Older archives are not rebuilt at all unless you
do a
>move.