Re: ACF archives

de Gary R. Schmidt 01/17/2007 10:36

Susan Bugher wrote:
> Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Susan Bugher wrote:
>
>
>>> Stray thoughts. . .
>>>
>>> Google's archive of ACF posts is still down. . . :(
>>>
>>> It sure would be nice to have our very own ACF archive. :)
>>>
>>> IIRC there's still a LOT of unused space on the Pricelessware site.
>>>
>>> dunno if having our own archive is a possibility or not. Thought it
>>> might be worth kicking the idea around to see if it's doable.
>>> Comments, suggestions, how-to info etc. ?
>>>
>> Hmm, I *could* open up a connection to my NNTP server, my archive of
>> a.c.f goes back to June 2005, and is ~250 Megabytes (~82000 posts),
>> which would at least allow searching.
>
>
> That sounds promising. :) How would it work?
>
I'd open up read-only access to my server, so it could be used just like
any other NNTP server.

This may not be as good an idea as I originally thought, as pulling down
+80K (ever-increasing) headers will take a long time...

If we could find a free google-like source package, and get it installed
on the PWH site, then it could be trivially fed from my (and other) sites.

Cheers,
Gary B-)

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