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

[George Mann]

Mike, thank you so much for your dedication to the club.
73 de George KJ4UW

On Mon, Nov 2, 2020, 12:43 AM Robert Young via CQ <cq at lists.lakelandarc.org>
wrote:

> Dang sneaky Chinese 😉 take care there out too get us one way or another.
> 😂🤣
>
> Robert Young
> AG4E
> SC 13184
> SKCC 20285
>
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Mike Oliver, KT2T
> > [see complete headers for contact information]
> >
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