Jason, Matthew,
Thanks for talking about this, gents. It's important.
If e-scribe is permanently down, then we don't *have* an archive from
that source to start with. In fact, that mass of data really is more
Scott's property than ours or mine. If he decides not to restore
escribe and can be p
Hi, Jason,
Yes, such a project would be great. But the workload
would be immense. Thanks for offering to pitch in. I
wonder if anybody else wants to get involved in such
an project? And, more importantly, what does Mike
Devour think about it? (And how many megabytes are
we talking about?)
I'll be
Hi Matthew:
The best way to approach a list archive project would be to manually go
through all messages, selecting each and every message that had
informational or archive value, then reformat the messages, index them,
cross-relate them, and use existing quality search technology to
maximize
Reproducing the archives' search capabilities would
be an arduous undertaking. Maybe a solution would
be to decentralize the task by do-it-yourself archive
searches. If I am not mistaken, the unix shell utilities
awk (or gawk) can do this. More powerful string handling
can be done with spitbol. Cat
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