Thanks for the info, John and Dave, and Scott, if you need any help with that,
I'll help you out. As well, if these are specific scripts to "extract" email
from Yahoo groups, I'd be interested in seeing them myself...
Cheers!
Jan
----- Original Message -----
From: David Lotz
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] BRHS Mailing list searchable archive?
Scott,
We'd welcome any efforts you might want to expend!
I like the idea of a script to archive as we go.
As far as the "unusable stuff" we were thinking about the replies with 15
prior messages from the thread that haven't been deleted, the posts that
were intended to go to individuals that contain no pertinent Burlington
information, the one word replies that don't really contribute to the
thread, or the duplicate posts due to server problems.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Nauer" <scott@n...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] BRHS Mailing list searchable archive?
> 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
> >
> >
> > > 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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