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[blu at vl.com (Tom Metro)]

Bob George wrote:
> In particular, someone mentioned they're using an 
> outfit that will rent you a PHYSICAL box with 40GB drive, 512M RAM for 
> something like $20-30 mo. Of course, now I want the info and can't find it.

http://www.serverpronto.com/


> Also, is there a searchable functional archive of this list somewhere?

This was posted back in January:

John Abreau wrote:
> I looked over the list archives and found two template files, 
> archtoc.html and archtocnombox.html, that seemed like good places for 
> the google search we had on the old server. I've modified the two 
> templates, so the search feature should be live after cron updates the 
> list archives.
> 
> Note that the list archives have always been visible through google; the 
> search box I added just makes it easier to limit a google search to the 
> contents of a particular BLU list.

suggesting that the archives at:
http://olduvai.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/

(which is fairly easy to navigate to from blu.org) have a search box, 
that uses Google to sift through the archives. I haven't had a chance to 
try it out. Lets see...a search on "serverpronto" takes me to Google and 
returns:

   Your search - serverpronto inurl:pipermail/Discuss site:blu.org - did
   not match any documents.

Searching directly on "inurl:pipermail/Discuss site:blu.org" at Google 
returns "1 of about 224 from blu.org," suggesting there is still a 
problem with Google not indexing the archives. There are "55,200 
[documents] from blu.org" in the index, but the coverage seems to be 
quite spotty. I had better luck finding recent postings from the new 
Linuxworld-2006 list archives.

I didn't find a http://olduvai.blu.org/robots.txt file, or a robots.txt 
on www.blu.org or lists.blu.org, but the META tags on 
http://olduvai.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/
might explain the problem:

      <title>The Discuss Archives</title>
      <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,follow">

  -Tom

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