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hi all john cottingham wrote, in part: >PIENO had a glitch Friday afternoon and the few messages >that came in until yesterday when it was fixed are not >in the maillist and thread pages list. > >The number of messages in the maillist on PIENO has changed >from a weeks latest messages to a few days for the benefit >of our international visitors. Maintaining 500 in the list >made the page load slowly for them. I cut down the list >maintained on the page to the last 300 messages. > >The few messages that were missed in the list on PIENO are >still available for reading and searching in Simon Coles >Parkinsn Archive whose search box is on the maillist page... thank you for that info john as i recall when you started your web list it was set for 50, no? since our list volume is way down from a couple of years ago i would imagine that 500 messages would go a looooong way back! all messages sent to a LISTSERV list are searchable through the listserv database functions no? as per the listserv access page or per the listserv tutorial instructions on my website. last time i used simon's site for searching, the date configuration wasn't quite right - okay for casual searches, but not for in depth analysis >After the pruning of the dead email addresses we still >have over 800 subscribed even though only about 50 post >to the list at any given time. ... i don't think that renewal of subscriptions has ever been tried i'm sure that would pare down the list considerably without 'dumping' anyone needlessly the other large lists at u of t are set for automatic renewal notices >The generosity they have shown by hosting us over >the last 8 years is priceless. They are being >required to justify their expenditures for >non-university endeavors.... i thought the problem was slowing down their server when we were 1900 susbscriptions? i asked barb at the time whether u of t would consider funding assistance in order to keep the list there >Parkinsn is considered an activist group and >doctors and universities are afraid of us and >the potential liabilities.... are they really "afraid"??? i can't see it... almost every listserv mailing list (thousands worldwide) would be considered an "activist" group - that's their whole raison d'etre - open uncensored exchange of info and opinion, no? there has been no liablility problem for listserv lists for the past 30 years... !!! janet janet paterson: an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit perky, parky pd: 55/41/37 cd: 55/44/43 tel: 613 256 8340 email: [log in to unmask] smail: 375 Country Street, Almonte, Ontario, Canada, K0A 1A0 a new voice: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn