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[Algorithms] list archives again

[Ivan-Assen I. <as...@ha...>]

Hello list,

I exported my 8-month archives for [Algorithms] from my stuffed Outlook
folders
massaged them with a bit of Perl and built a bunch of HTMLs + an index page.
The index page contains the subjects of all the threads, each HTML is all
the messages
in a thread listed by date.
I wanted to do a fancier tree-like structure, but less than 30% of the
messages carry
the required for this In-Reply-To headers and I don't have the time or
enthusiasm to
make a super-heuristic-AI "reply recognition".
I want to put them up as a web page somewhere, ideally at Sourceforge where
the
list is hosted, but I couldn't contact Tom Hubina, and besides, I wanted to
check with
you guys if somebody would mind.
You can download an archive of the entire thing (bzip2 over
zip-without-compression)
form NetDrive:

http://www.netdrive.com/~ivanassen/MyPublicFiles

(click on My Public Files in the left pane; the file is 3dgamedev.zip.bz2 -
about 2 MB)

you can find bzip2 at http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/

Feel free to suggest additional formatting of the messages (or to volunteer
to
do it yourself :-) ) If somebody has messages from before Feb 2000 in
Outlook [Express],
please contact me. (Or in some other "processable" format)

Regards,
Assen

Re: [Algorithms] list archives again

[Pierre T. <p.t...@wa...>]

Wow.
Well done Ivan, that's a very precious package!

I may have some posts from 1999 on a backup CD (..hmm, almost all of them I
guess). But they're saved as .mbx files, I think that's Outlook Express'
compressed format. Not really sure how to read them back.

Pierre

----- Original Message -----
From: Ivan-Assen Ivanov <as...@ha...>
To: <gda...@li...>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 12:17 PM
Subject: [Algorithms] list archives again


> Hello list,
>
> I exported my 8-month archives for [Algorithms] from my stuffed Outlook
> folders
> massaged them with a bit of Perl and built a bunch of HTMLs + an index
page.
> The index page contains the subjects of all the threads, each HTML is all
> the messages
> in a thread listed by date.
> I wanted to do a fancier tree-like structure, but less than 30% of the
> messages carry
> the required for this In-Reply-To headers and I don't have the time or
> enthusiasm to
> make a super-heuristic-AI "reply recognition".
> I want to put them up as a web page somewhere, ideally at Sourceforge
where
> the
> list is hosted, but I couldn't contact Tom Hubina, and besides, I wanted
to
> check with
> you guys if somebody would mind.
> You can download an archive of the entire thing (bzip2 over
> zip-without-compression)
> form NetDrive:
>
> http://www.netdrive.com/~ivanassen/MyPublicFiles
>
> (click on My Public Files in the left pane; the file is
3dgamedev.zip.bz2 -
> about 2 MB)
>
> you can find bzip2 at http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/
>
> Feel free to suggest additional formatting of the messages (or to
volunteer
> to
> do it yourself :-) ) If somebody has messages from before Feb 2000 in
> Outlook [Express],
> please contact me. (Or in some other "processable" format)
>
> Regards,
> Assen
>
> _______________________________________________
> GDAlgorithms-list mailing list
> GDA...@li...
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/gdalgorithms-list

Re: [Algorithms] list archives again

[Tom H. <to...@3d...>]

At 03:17 AM 9/8/2000, you wrote:
>I want to put them up as a web page somewhere, ideally at Sourceforge where
>the
>list is hosted, but I couldn't contact Tom Hubina, and besides, I wanted to
>check with
>you guys if somebody would mind.

Amazing. Someone can't reply to you within 24hrs and suddenly they cannot 
be contacted? My reply was going to be, "Make is searchable and have it get 
updated every time an email is sent out and I'll get behind it 100%, but 
digging through three years of archives by hand is not my idea of fun". I 
was gonna phrase it a bit nicer, but since you couldn't wait, well, there 
it is. Anyway ... do what you want with the archive. If you get it 
searchable I'll go through and do a bit of clean up on my archive (Eudora 
mailbox) which contains almost every email ever sent to this list (there's 
a gap for a couple of days from a mailbox error while I was in Canada a 
couple months back) and get that to you.

SourceForge has their head up their ass and doesn't appear to want to help 
get their archives functional at all. I've been trying to talk to them 
about this stuff, but so far the only response I've been able to get as been:

"As far as I know, we do not import old archives into Geocrawler at all.
It's too much of a headache and can lead to disaster.

As far as searchability, Geocrawler needs to be totally rewritten and
that is somewhere on the radar, but I'm not sure where. Until then, it's
got some real problems.
"

Needless to say I'm more than a little bit unhappy about this. I'm also 
swamped with work right now and I really don't have time to be dealing with 
this properly.

Tom