>Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 17:02:04 -0400
>From: Alex Burton 
>Subject: Re: HTML csound mailing list archive
>To: Paul Winkler , csound@maths.ex.ac.uk
>
>
> i've read the mail archive thread sideways; maybe i'm joining in too 
late. In
>any case, we could store the archives at the university of montreal, 
and maybe
>break them down in months or something so the indexes are manageable. I 
could
>also make a (very crude) text search engine so it would be usable.


Are you offering ftp space, or http?

My first idea was to make an HTML archive to be placed on the web. That 
would still be my preference, but it's BIG. I think a reasonable size 
for each chunk of the archive would be one or two months' worth of mail. 
I would like to do it so that threads don't stretch across separate 
sections of the archive since that's probably the most useful way to 
find the information you need.  

A variation on that would be to have only the most recent messages on an 
http server and store the rest as compressed packages in a number of 
formats: plain text and html in both zip and gz formats (but what do mac 
people use?). I'd probably make the filenames along the lines of 
csnd-97-1.html.gz

John Boyd suggested an alternative plan: plain text with an online 
search engine. That would do the trick too, it's up to you if you want 
to make a search engine...


Only thing
>i'm not sure is how to collect them automatically (is majordomo already 
doing
>it?).

Dunno... jpff?

> i'll be somewhat out of touch for a week or so; i'll see what the 
project
>status is when i come back...
>
>
>                                   Alex Burton.

No hurry. :)

PW


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