[Rhodes22-list] The Website and The List

[Peter Nyberg]

Tom,

Glad you found us.  

People are probably curious about your search for a Rhodes 22.   Have you considered a recycled boat?  Have you been in contact with General Boats?  Where are you located, and what kind of sailing are you planning on doing?

You probably have questions about the Rhodes 22 as well.  Whatever the question is, it’s probably been asked and answered at least a dozen times before, but go ahead and ask anyway.  If we limited our discussions to topics that have never been mentioned before, well, we’d have almost nothing to talk about at all.

 Nabble does provide a nice interface for searching the archives, but there are a couple of Nabble related issues you should be aware of:

1)  Nabble searches its archives, not our archives.  And, its archives are not complete.  The first message on the list was posted in July of 2002.  Nabble’s archive appears to only go back to January of 2006 (with the exception of a single message from 2004, for some reason).

2) If you post a message with an attachment to the list using the Nabble interface, Nabble keeps the attachment and inserts a link to it in the body of the message.  The problem is that Nabble has on at least one occasion reorganized its directory structure for storing attachments, breaking the attachment links in all prior messages.  So many attachments in archived messages are lost to us forever.

So, best practice is to post directly to the list, especially for messages with attachments.  Unfortunately, the list-server software (Mailman ?) doesn’t like the way that the Mac email client formats messages with attachments, and the attachments end up getting stripped out.  As a Mac user, on the rare occasion when I want to send a message with an attachment, I use a web mail client interface provided by the web-hosting service I use for sunnybeeches.com.  

Anyway, sorry to bend your ear, and welcome to the list.

—Peter


> On Jul 8, 2020, at 10:43 AM, Tom Van Heule <tom.vanheule at intrinsicprograms.com> wrote:
> 
> I had some plans once I found a boat to offer this - I am in IT by trade,
> and we need SSL certs with all of our personal contact info floating
> around.
> I also found http://rhodes-22.1065344.n5.nabble.com/  is actually usable
> for past reading of these archives.
> 
> I have a place to host everything (servers in a datacenter)  great topic!
> 
> Tom
> -- 
> Tom Van Heule
> Intrinsic Programs
> tom.vanheule at intrinsicprograms.com
> +1 303 525 5266