P3D Re: Re Disabling spamming viamailinglist archive

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Well, the *-3D mailinglists are just some of my personal favorites.
>The other lists, Infrared and Panorama, had no archives and that
>was the main reason to make one available. While doing this, I just
>threw *-3d in 'for free' (maybe a little forced by not being satisfied
>with the browsing, searching, and referencing features of the primary
>Calcite archive).

I might note that from time to time I've thought about switching
over to a format for the calcite archives which would allow 
threaded message reading and so forth, but the main problem was/is
that the software implementations I've looked at to do this require
one directory entry (inode for you Unix/Linux types :-) for each
message. This eats up disk space in a hurry when you are looking at
25,000+ messages. So using webglimpse appears to be a reasonable
alternative between compactness and accessibility. Being as 
As Calcite is basically a "junk machine" here at the college, there's
not much opportunity for upgrades except for the support of a few
very kind people here who have made equipment donations from time to time.


THANKS!

              Bob Wier
     mailto:wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   12:34 PM Thursday, March 9, 2000
        Unix/Internet Administrator
   Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT.
 keeper of the Photo-3d and Overland-Trails
mailing lists and the USA GPS Waypoint server