Re: [photo-3d] archives

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:57 PM 9/28/2000, you wrote:
>I recently upgraded the machine on my desk with a 60 GB HD from Costco
>for $240 (those of us who've been around for awhile find these kind of
>storage figures absolutely mind boggling). I'm starting to think about
>putting the original archives back onto Calcite in a searchable format
>(probably via a Perl front end to MySql) plus perhaps the current
>egroups archives (wih another 60 GB HD I don't think space would
>be a problem - an shortly there will be an 80 GB available!).
>
>Here's the question. Does anyone know of a way to get the contents of
>the egroups archives without looking at each message individually? I
>experimented with it a bit and this is mind-numbing to do it on a
>single message basis.
>
>THANKS!

I don't think eGroups gives you a way to recover the entire 
archives.  However, if you click on any message, you'll see that it has a 
URL of the form

         http://www.egroups.com/message/photo-3d/<msg#>

You could write a Perl script, for example, so retrieve all the messages 
from 1 to whatever.  If you're handy with Perl, you could also have it 
strip off the extra junk that eGroups puts on the display, so you get only 
the message text itself.

Of course, you were probably looking for something easier than writing a 
Perl script.  Hmmm.  I wonder if anyone has a ready-made script to fetch 
the archives of any given egroups list.


-pd


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