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