How come, that the archive won't fit a CD-ROM ?
I have archived all the messages to the REBOL list since -97
(the core/alpha days), and during 2000, I have received anything
between 500 and 1400 messages per month..
The lists have existed about three years now, which will allow about
18MB of mails per month to fill up a CD.. 18MB and 1500 messages gives
an average mail size of 12k (assuming that the list received 1500
messages a month in November -97)...
As I can see from the yet unsorted 1704 messages during September and
October, the REBOL list's average message size is about 2-3k, which is
also true for the Ally list (which have received about 2200 mails since
middle of February)
Back in the time when it was possible to get digests of the messages,
the maximum size of the 100-message mail I got was 330k.
/PeO
> That would be good. For the archive, Scott mentioned that it is so large now that
>it does not fit on a CD-ROM. Perhaps if we compressed it? Scott?
>
> -Carl
>
> At 10/10/00 08:25 PM -0500, you wrote:
> >Carl-
> >
> >So long as the list continues to send e-mail to the eScribe archive, I'm all
> >for it (smart search engine there.)
> >
> >Also, is there any way you can make all past messages available in some kind
> >of package? I could then update the eScribe archive with messages before July
> >2000.
> >
> >-Ryan
> >
> >>It's great to have so much activity happening with REBOL these days.
> >>Unfortunately, our servers are overloading. We're starting to have gigabyte
> >>days. While it is good to have all this activity, it is making life
> >>difficult for a few folks around here. What would you think if we were to
> >>move this main list to a site like egroups.com? That would also give you web
> >>access to archives, file lists, and other features.
> >>
> >>Your thoughts?
> >>
> >>-Carl
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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