John and Dave,
As an introduction, I have been lurking around this list for quite some time
now. I did a quick search around the net and have found some scripts that
can make this go fairly smoothly (if they work of course). As I spend time
running servers on the 'net I wouldn't mind looking into this.
For my 2 cents: The ideal solution would be something that adds to the archive
as it happens. I personally am not a huge fan of "delete unusable stuff",
even the friday commercial posts have useful information for contacting people.
Anyway, this is something that I could spend some time on...
Scott
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:47:53PM -0500, BNJohn@a... wrote:
> Jan,
> Sorry but we feel that paying Yahoo is a bad idea and would like to keep the
> list as it is. We also had an idea that we would like to run past the list.
> Since you are right about the small space that Yahoo gives us for our
> archives we would like to find a volunteer to take all the archives, go
> though them, delete the unusable stuff and then put the good message's on the
> BRHS web site, that way we could save our archives without paying Yahoo. This
> would be a large job and would require a person with a lot of time. Dave and
> I would appreciate any comments any one would like to make.
>
> Thanks
> Dave Lotz
> BRHSlist owner
>
> John Lee
> BRHSlist Moderator
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>
> > I am an admin for several Yahoo groups lists, and have a question for the
> > moderator(s) as well as somewhat in general.
> >
> > I know Yahoo sent out a poll awhile back to see if group owners would be
> > interested in upgrading their list to something better where the messages
> > could be archived and downloaded and such, plus other features.
> >
> > Would the moderator be interested in doing that with this list? I don't
> > know about everyone else, but I'd be willing to pay few bucks a year to
> > have a searchable archive of all the BRHS messages. At the moment it's
> > rather unfortunate as I'm sure there's tons of information in the thousands
> > of messages in the BRHS short history, but it's very difficult to find
> > anything by going back month-by-month.
> >
> > I'm not trying to make a big fuss, just saying that *I* would be interested
> > in that, if nobody else is interested, I'll just shut up... :) I'm also
> > somewhat volunteering to help foot some of the expense to keep the list
> > free
> > for those people who don't want to pay for such a service.
> >
> > I guess the one other thing I'm wondering about is the fact that if you get
> > close to your free group limit (20 meg?), what does Yahoo start doing with
> > the messages? Dump them? If so, I'd really hate to lose any of the
> > expertise that has been shown here...
> >
> > Jan Kohl
> >
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