3 Sep
2006
3 Sep
'06
10:26 a.m.
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
e.stiebler wrote:
Hey, I use the archive occasionally. Usual method of using:
1. Download the gzipped archive of each month's messages. (Typically 1
Mbyte for a month of cctalk).
2. Uncompress the archives.
3. Grep for what I'm looking for.
Often I use it as a substitute for reading the E-mails.
Realistically, on a discussion list most traffic will be people who
want to talk (even if it's just rehashing an old topic for the umpteenth
time) instead of actually exchanging information.
Tim.
and why are we having an archive of classiccomp,
if nobody reads it ?
I thought that for technical reasons (i.e. it takes many hours to rebuild the
index, and because Jay hasn't figured out how to clone himself ;) the archive
was at the stage of: "only works between the hours of 6-8pm, if you happen to
be on US time". Maybe it's fixed now and I missed a post about it...