Re: [photo-3d] archives

["John A. Rupkalvis" <stereoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is no doubt an extremely valuable resource.  We should all be thankful
for Marco's efforts in accomplishing this.

Now, if there were only some way to set up an index by subject...

JR

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Pauck" <marco@xxxxxxxx>
To: <photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [photo-3d] archives


> Hi Bob,
>
> > 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!).
>
> Well, as you probably know, I've already set up such a searchable
> archive of Photo-3D at
> http://www.pauck.de/archive/mailinglist/photo-3d/photo-3d.html
> (and in addition Tech-3D, Sell-3D, and MF3D). It contains about
> 44000 messages since March 1995 and should be complete.
>
> > 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.
>
> Sure, I've used wget to grab all messages from your old archive. ;-)
> It should be also usable to slurp the stuff from eGroups.
>
> Of course, the easiest approach is to simply get all mails
> from me in case you still want to dup the effort ... ;-)
>
> Marco
> --
> Marco Pauck -- marco@xxxxxxxx -- http://www.pauck.de/marco/
> For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple,
> neat, and wrong.  -- H. L. Mencken
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