From: Patrick Pierquet <ppierquet@teltech.com>
To: "'baidarka@lists.intelenet.net'" <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
Subject: RE: [baidarka] Archive of Mailing list now available
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 15:21:21 -0500
Nice job, Charles!
- Patrick in Minnesota
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chall@totalsports.net [SMTP:chall@totalsports.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 1998 2:07 PM
> To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
> Subject: [baidarka] Archive of Mailing list now available
>
> A while back I asked whether there was any interest in an archive of
> the
> Baidarka mailing list.
>
> I received several helpful replies. In particular, Kirk Olsen pointed
> out that the complete archives are available as files from the
> MajorDomo
> server. ("get baidarka baidarka.9805" for example).
>
> Using these files I have created a searchable and browsable index at:
>
> http://rtpnet.org/robroy/baidarka/
>
> Other suggestions included sorting by predefined category, but using
> off-the-shelf software I can't sort the mail into specific categories.
>
> Another suggestion was to censor the email addresses from the archive
> to
> deter "spammers" from harvesting the addresses. For myself, I'd prefer
> to take that risk and have my email address included. If anyone feels
> strongly about this, however, email me and I'll try to figure out how
> to
> mask your address in particular.
>
> I'm using Hypermail to create the HTML files, and Swish to index them.
> You can search with Boolean expressions like "and" and "not", or go to
> a
> particular month and read mail sorted by date, author, or thread.
>
> --
> Charles Hall
> Total Sports
> Raleigh, NC USA
> http://info.totalsports.net