mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill Sconce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We've had threads here previously about ACPI. [1] [2] [3] A very informative post. I found all of this to be very interesting. Thanks for sharing. It seems like you did quite a bit of research into this problem. One thing that this highlights, to me,

Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-24 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 23, 2005, at 22:30, Kevin D. Clark wrote: One thing that this highlights, to me, is that the archives to this mailing list still aren't available online. http://www.mail-archive.com/gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org/msg08582.html - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Comp

Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jan 23, 2005, at 22:30, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > >> One thing that this highlights, to me, is that the archives to this >> mailing list still aren't available online. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org/msg08582.html The a

Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-24 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 24, 2005, at 12:03, Kevin D. Clark wrote: The archives from mail-archive.com are regularly purged, and in fact only go back to 196 days at this instant. Ah, bugger. I could mirror the list on my server, I already have mailman setup for DLSLUG and sufficient free disk space. Does anybody ha

Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-24 Thread Drew Van Zandt
If anyone wants to suggest an archiver/web frontend, I can set it up on my server; I can afford to store at least a few hundred meg of archives, probably even a gig. --DTVZ Note: As anyone I've replied to has probably noticed, I usually send the email intended for the list to an individual before

Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I could mirror the list on my server, I already have mailman setup for > DLSLUG and sufficient free disk space. Does anybody have historical > mbox files? Somebody probably has these. I don't have a complete archive, but I've got *some*. Some folks

Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-24 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 24, 2005, at 12:48, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Some folks on this list are *very* concerned with their email addresses appearing on a web-accessible archive (they don't want to give anything to the spammers). I share this concern, although I think that there are folks on this list who are more a

Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-24 Thread Tom Buskey
> I'm curious - is there anyone here who expects total privacy with the > address they use to post here? If I were a spammer I'd subscribe to Hahahaha. :-( I wish I had a nickel for everytime the email privacy/mail archive/etc issue was rehashed & beaten to death. You could look in the archive

Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jan 24, 2005, at 12:48, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > >> Some folks on this list are *very* concerned with their email >> addresses appearing on a web-accessible archive (they don't want to >> give anything to the spammers). I share this concern, althoug

Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-24 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:44:52 -0500, Tom Buskey wrote: > > A way around this might be a poll that put the archive idea to a vote, > then go with the majority. Then put that in the charter so we can end > these debates by pointing at the charter. I'd like the archive. However, would gmane be a be

Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-24 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:44:52PM -0500, Tom Buskey wrote: > Seriously, if you can remove all email addresses from the archive, I'd > bet you'd solve 90% of the problems people have with creating an > archive. I'm pretty sure I've historically been the most vocal complainer, and I've followed the

Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-24 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, at 12:03pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org/msg08582.html > > The archives from mail-archive.com are regularly purged, and in fact only > go back to 196 days at this instant. According to their FAQ, they keep mail indef

Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-25 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott writes: > According to their FAQ, they keep mail indefinitely. They say they only > keep the most recent 3000 msgs in data or thread indexes; is that what you > mean? Or are they not working as advertised? All I know is that I could only look back 196 days at that instant. If t

Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-25 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Kevin D. Clark writes: > Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> This appears to be the main stumbling block. Mailman has an e-mail >> address obfuscation feature but it's very sad ('user at domain'). If >> I were writing a harvester I think I'd throw in the 1-line regex to >> fix these