[LARC-CQ] missing emails from the October 2020 mailing list archive

[Robert Young]

Dang sneaky Chinese 😉 take care there out too get us one way or another. 😂🤣

Robert Young
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> On Nov 1, 2020, at 10:58 PM, Mike Oliver, KT2T via CQ <cq at lists.lakelandarc.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I wanted to send you all an email to explain why some of the messages
> you've seen posted to the list are not present in the mailing list
> archives. For those of you who have sent email to the list after October
> 21, 2020, if you want that content to be archived then please resend it
> to the list. If it was time-sensitive then I'll leave it up to you
> whether or not to resend.
> 
> The reason that those messages were not archived is because I was
> working with tech support from Dreamhost (our hosting provider) on
> solving some pretty severe problems with our mailing list archives. This
> all stemmed from an issue a while ago where there was some heated
> discussion on the list and a club member (also a member of the mailing
> list) sent a virus-infected Microsoft Word doc to the list. This wreaked
> all kinds of havoc with our web site, our mailing list, and us being
> listed as a malware site by Google. I have since dealt with all of that
> fallout, but in the process of dealing with Dreamhost to have our
> mailing list archive purged of the virus-infected file, the archive
> itself was nearly destroyed. It took several weeks for me to be
> connected to competent support personnel and in the end I had to perform
> the corrective actions on the archive myself and send to Dreamhost for
> import and assimilation. Unfortunately, the time delay for Dreamhost to
> export the archive, send to me so that I could repair it, and then send
> back to Dreamhost for assimilation meant that any emails sent to the
> list during that back-and-forth were lost because I was working on the
> archive snapshot from before those messages were sent. This
> back-and-forth with Dreamhost happened four times before it was finally
> made right. Not fun guys.
> 
> So, with that dirty laundry all aired out, let me drop some good news. I
> was able to inject all of the email exported from our old Yahoo group
> into the mailing list archive, so if you go look at our CQ mailing list
> archive you'll see not only all of the email sent to the CQ list since
> it was created, but also email send/posted to our Yahoo group going back
> to March 2006. It may be interesting reading to some, probably not to
> most, but it was important to me (as the admin of the old Yahoo groups)
> to restore that LARC history, and it's done.
> 
> I hope you can forgive this trouble with the list management and our
> hosting provider, I hope to never revisit this process or to have to
> sent another email list this one. I hope you're all well.
> 
> Best regards,
> Mike Oliver, KT2T
> 
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> Mike Oliver, KT2T
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