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 the usability of the data.
I would love to be part of such a project, although yes it would prove
to be quite a task. If Mike is interested in releasing the archives for
such a purpose, it would be a good project.
Kind Regards,
Jason
Matthew McCann wrote:
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's Paw in Salidas CO
provided spitbol once upon a time; maybe they still do.
There may be a steep learning curve. But once its
done, its done.
The past archives could be distributed on cdrom,
zip disk or tape, while the Silver-List could continue as it is to
supply daily updates.
I haven't done anything like this, but surely somebody
on the List
has had experience with disbanded bioinformatics projects
with similar archive continuation problems. If so,
thanks in advance for your input.
Best regards,
Matthew
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