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Re: [PLUG] List archives back online
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"Michael C. Toren" wrote:
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> I'm pleased to announce that the PLUG mailing list archives are now
> back online at <http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/>, and that
> the link from the website at <http://www.phillylinux.org> has been
> updated. I apologize for the delay, but there was a fair amount of
> work involved: three weekends ago I spent about eight hours extracting
> list messages from my personal mail archives (including the time it
> took to diagnose and fix bugs in grepmail[1]), two weekends ago I was
> sick, one weekend ago I simply didn't have free time to work on it,
> and this past weekend I spent about five hours researching various
> HTML conversion options and finally ended up tweaking MHonArc to do
> most of what I wanted.
>
> A few other random notes about the archives:
>
> - I was able to find data going back as far as 1997, covering
> several incarnations of the list hosted at various sites and
> utilizing various MLM software. If anyone has any data going
> back farther, please let me know and I'll incorporate it.
>
> - In mbox format, there are a total of 93M of archives available
> to date.
>
> - For now, there's only one set of archives for both the plug
> discussion list and the plug-announce list. If anyone really
> cares, it would be possible to separate it out, but I don't
> know that it's worth the additional time.
>
> - MHonArc breaks GPG signatures, which is fairly annoying but to
> be expected when converting messages to HTML, I suppose. As a
> workaround, I've also included links to the raw mbox archives.
>
> - MHonArc also breaks threads which take place over the course of
> two months, but this isn't obvious when you're looking over the
> monthly "thread index" page. I know of no workaround.
>
> If anyone has any comments or suggestions, please let me know.
Sounds great! I just happened to be looking for mbox files over the
weekend to test a mail archive package, and grabbed the 2003 plug
archives to try out. The archiver I'm looking at is
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lurker .
If anyone wants to see it, it's temporarily set up
http://kevb.net:3000/lurker/ . No guarantees about it being up all the
time.
It does support searching. And yes, I know about the XSL/XML problems
on Netscape/Mozilla. It also renders badly on older versions of
Netscape.
--
Kevin Brosius
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Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug
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