Ben Okopnik wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:33:27AM -0400, Vernon Densler wrote: > >> Yes in a way. The one on my server replaces the @ with the word at so that >> automated systems can't pick it up. The other one just hides it. >> >> As far as the difference, well the one on mail-archive.com is searchable and >> the one on my server is not. If you wanted to search the archives on mine >> you would have to download the text files for each month and search them >> yourself. >> > > Vern, if you need a searchable backup archive, I can help you out. A few > months back, I created an archive mirror for another group that I'm in: > with the help of a volunteer list that I organized, we pulled down all > the posts (Yahoo only allows you to download a small number of posts at > any one time), processed them via a Perl script that I wrote to extract > all the useful info and turn it back into a mail archive, and uploaded > them into a database. In addition, I wrote a bot that checks the group > every day, pulls down any new posts, and adds them to the database. In > addition, I created a nice searchable interface for the whole thing. All > the group members love it - and if Yahoo should ever shut that group > down (as they've done to a number of groups without any rhyme or > reason), we won't lose any more than a day's worth of posts. > > I suspect it would be fairly easy for me to tweak my scripts to > accomodate the LA archive structure, so you'd end up with a searchable > archive as well. > Ben, I was about to make a similar offer. I have a search program for my local email that would work as well.
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