From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 2 13:53:52 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA15414 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 May 1995 13:53:52 -0700 Received: from grendel.csc.smith.edu (grendel.csc.smith.edu [131.229.222.23]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA15407 for ; Tue, 2 May 1995 13:53:38 -0700 Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by grendel.csc.smith.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) id QAA03556; Tue, 2 May 1995 16:54:20 -0400 From: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) Message-Id: <199505022054.QAA03556@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Subject: Re: Mailing list archives on CD-ROM! To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 16:54:20 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at May 2, 95 03:19:47 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1235 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Tao writes: > On Sun, 30 Apr 1995, Alok K. Dhir wrote: > > and an archive of the mailing lists - with a searchable database engine > > for the news/mail... Hmmm... > > Hey, I *like* this idea... probably better than any FAQ/HOW-TO/README > out there, with a decent search engine. A 4-CDROM set would not be a > problem, and we won't even have to borrow Linux binaries to fill up > the space. >;-) This is good. I'll see if I can throw something together for 2.1. Indexed files eat up space like nothing you've ever seen (except for the USGS digital orthoquad series, 3500 CD's of jpeg compressed aerial photographs!). The fairly modest index on www.freebsd.org sucks up a couple hundred meg. > BTW, what's up with the mailing list archive on www.freebsd.org? > Is anyone updating it? No. It uses freewais which is buggy as hell. It never worked quite right under 1.1.5.1 and I never even got it compiled under 2.0, mainly because of a lack of time. In another week, the semester will be over and I hope to get the mailing list archive back in gear. -john === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ================================================ =================================== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===