Re: ACF archives

de Susan Bugher 01/18/2007 05:18

Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
> 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.

That's "I know nothing" territory for me. If there's a way to do it I
hope people will speak up/ volunteer to help. Meanwhile - on a less
ambitious note - is there an easy way to *archive* the posts you have on
the PWH site? IIRC deja vu was unavailable for some period of time
before Google took over the newsgroup archives. ISTM we *could* lose the
ACF archives again - perhaps permanently. That doesn't seem likely ATM
but having our own set of archives would be a good precaution against
disaster.

Susan
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