Re: [GENERAL] Mailing Lists

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 kaiq@realtyideas.com wrote:

> I said this before, hope not too annoying.
> Is it possible to make the mailing lists downloadable text
> files? of course, they need to be splited into several files
> for each list. Seems that the time of each version-release is
> a reasonable cut. most people will only need the more recent
> ones.
>
> The use of online search engine is slower than 'primitive'
> vi -- not only because of the search engine itself but also
> due to the web server and network.
>
> Is there any commercial interest that conflict with this?

Ummm, there is a link off of each month on the web site to an mbox format
file, gzip'd...unfortunately, just looking at it now, it looks like there
is a bug with the script that generates that page...will look at it...

But, those links have been generated since we put up mhonarc many months
ago...

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>
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> On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
>
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > I'm working on the CD image for PostgreSQL again. It's now at
> > quite a healty size of 664 megs, and grows daily as the mailing
> > list archives grow.
> >
> > The lists are taking up >50% of the cd. I'm curious about people's
> > opinions. The archives are a valuable resource. But out of those
> > who have ever bought a cd, or those that would,
> >
> >     Would you use the archives off the cd ?
> >
> > Consider the point, that these archives are possibly outdated when
> > you receive the cd, and that the Live archives on www.postgresql.org
> > are searchable.
> >
> > Depending on the consensus, we will either remove the archives from
> > the cd distro all together, or find an alternate method of storing
> > them on it.
> >
> > I'm also taking any suggestions to make the archives on the cd searchable.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jeff MacDonald
> > jeff@hub.org
> >
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Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
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