Jan,
Why don't you and Scott team up and get this done! I'm certain everyone
would be appreciative.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Kohl" <jkohl@n...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] BRHS Mailing list searchable archive?
> 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
> >
> > --
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
> > Scott Nauer-- http://www.nauer.org
> > Volunteer IRM Diesel Dept.-- http://www.irm.org/dieseldept
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
> > 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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