I have 32,000 saved posts...

I'm a long time lurker here.

Back in 2003, I started saving posts, because I just didn't have time to
read them; I'm not very good at reading meow chat.

So now, many years later, I have over 32,000 saved posts. Once I started
saving a thread, I saved all of it, until there were no posts, to the
best of my knowledge.

I would like to pass them along to somebody, long and deeply involved
with RPCC, who can keep them, and perhaps pass them along to others.

I would have to send them on a USB jump drive; it would only work with a
PC.

The program can be run right off the USB jump drive, or be copied to a
hard drive.

I have used an old newsgroup reader program called Agent Forte; I got it
10 years ago, and it was old then.

But it keeps the posts in 'thread order', by date, with the author's
name, etc. I has been a very good program for reading newsgroups.

Recently, I have lost the entire saved contents of two other newsgroups,
including a huge number I had saved on rec.pets.cats.health+behav.

I am afraid the program may be deteriorating, and I do not want to lose
all the posts I saved on RPCC, as well, before I can pass them along.

And, once saved on another hard drive, they could be passed to other
people, using a jump drive.

Discuss this on the group, and pick one person you all feel would a good
person to send this irreplaceable history of this wonderful news group.

My E-mail address is good, but I don't want to receive E-mails from
individuals wanting the data; I want the person chosen by consensus in
this open forum.

If things should get ugly, and I certainly hope that doesn't happen, I
will withdraw my offer; permanently and irrevocably. I can, and I WILL.

So no Ego Trips, please. Lets keep this discussion positive.

Thank you.

Gandalf




I would prefer to keep it within the USA.

I have a USB jump drive

Maybe Unka Dan?

Rebecca

"Gandalf" wrote in message
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I'm a long time lurker here.

Back in 2003, I started saving posts, because I just didn't have time to
read them; I'm not very good at reading meow chat.

So now, many years later, I have over 32,000 saved posts. Once I started
saving a thread, I saved all of it, until there were no posts, to the
best of my knowledge.

I would like to pass them along to somebody, long and deeply involved
with RPCC, who can keep them, and perhaps pass them along to others.

I would have to send them on a USB jump drive; it would only work with a
PC.

The program can be run right off the USB jump drive, or be copied to a
hard drive.

I have used an old newsgroup reader program called Agent Forte; I got it
10 years ago, and it was old then.

But it keeps the posts in 'thread order', by date, with the author's
name, etc. I has been a very good program for reading newsgroups.

Recently, I have lost the entire saved contents of two other newsgroups,
including a huge number I had saved on rec.pets.cats.health+behav.

I am afraid the program may be deteriorating, and I do not want to lose
all the posts I saved on RPCC, as well, before I can pass them along.

And, once saved on another hard drive, they could be passed to other
people, using a jump drive.

Discuss this on the group, and pick one person you all feel would a good
person to send this irreplaceable history of this wonderful news group.

My E-mail address is good, but I don't want to receive E-mails from
individuals wanting the data; I want the person chosen by consensus in
this open forum.

If things should get ugly, and I certainly hope that doesn't happen, I
will withdraw my offer; permanently and irrevocably. I can, and I WILL.

So no Ego Trips, please. Lets keep this discussion positive.

Thank you.

Gandalf




I would prefer to keep it within the USA.

I have a USB jump drive

On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:55:57 -0800, "Rebecca"
wrote:

Maybe Unka Dan?

Rebecca

A very good nomination!

He is a man I have a great respect for, and IIRC, he has considerable IT
experience, which could be extremely useful is 'saving' this data from
the elderly program it resides , and perhaps sending to other people, as
well.

Gandalf

Gandalf wrote:
Back in 2003, I started saving posts, because I just didn't have time to
read them; I'm not very good at reading meow chat.

So now, many years later, I have over 32,000 saved posts. Once I started
saving a thread, I saved all of it, until there were no posts, to the
best of my knowledge.

I would like to pass them along to somebody, long and deeply involved
with RPCC, who can keep them, and perhaps pass them along to others.

If nobody else is able, I could do it.

I can see where it would be more convenient than searching through
Google Groups' stored posts, but what other advantages would there be?

Adam

On Nov 29, 1:41*am, (Gandalf) wrote:
I'm a long time lurker here.

Back in 2003, I started saving posts, because I just didn't have time to
read them; I'm not very good at reading meow chat.

So now, many years later, I have over 32,000 saved posts. Once I started
saving a thread, I saved all of it, until there were no posts, to the
best of my knowledge.

I would like to pass them along to somebody, long and deeply involved
with RPCC, who can keep them, and perhaps pass them along to others.

I would have to send them on a USB jump drive; it would only work with a
PC.

The program can be run right off the USB jump drive, or be copied to a
hard drive.

I have used an old newsgroup reader program called Agent Forte; I got it
10 years ago, and it was old then.

But it keeps the posts in 'thread order', by date, with the author's
name, etc. I has been a very good program for reading newsgroups.

Recently, I have lost the entire saved contents of two other newsgroups,
including a huge number I had saved on rec.pets.cats.health+behav.

I am afraid the program may be deteriorating, and I do not want to lose
all the posts I saved on RPCC, as well, before I can pass them along.

And, once saved on another hard drive, they could be passed to other
people, using a jump drive.

Discuss this on the group, and pick one person you all feel would a good
person to send this irreplaceable history of this wonderful news group.

My E-mail address is good, but I don't want to receive E-mails from
individuals wanting the data; I want the person chosen by consensus in
this open forum.

If things should get ugly, and I certainly hope that doesn't happen, I
will withdraw my offer; permanently and irrevocably. I can, and I WILL.

So no Ego Trips, please. Lets keep this discussion positive.

Thank you.

Gandalf

I would prefer to keep it within the USA.

I have a USB jump drive

On Nov 29, 9:03*am, Adam wrote:
Gandalf wrote:
Back in 2003, I started saving posts, because I just didn't have time to
read them; I'm not very good at reading meow chat.

So now, many years later, I have over 32,000 saved posts. Once I started
saving a thread, I saved all of it, until there were no posts, to the
best of my knowledge.

I would like to pass them along to somebody, long and deeply involved
with RPCC, who can keep them, and perhaps pass them along to others.

If nobody else is able, I could do it.

I can see where it would be more convenient than searching through
Google Groups' stored posts, but what other advantages would there be?

Adam

Oops! I sent a blank message by mistake. I guess I should wait till
I have my first cup of coffee before trying to reply to messages. :-)

Although I wouldn't want to be responsible for the care of this, it
would be VERY helpful for me to have a copy, since I'm the one putting
the rpcc website together. Sometimes I spend hours looking things up.

Heather

In article ,
(Gandalf) wrote:

On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:55:57 -0800, "Rebecca"
wrote:

Maybe Unka Dan?

Rebecca

A very good nomination!

He is a man I have a great respect for, and IIRC, he has considerable IT
experience, which could be extremely useful is 'saving' this data from
the elderly program it resides , and perhaps sending to other people, as
well.

Gandalf

I would love to receive your data, and would be glad to send copies of
the data to anyone else who wants it. I've got a couple of projects I've
been working on, projects that will present the group's past adventures
in an easy-to-read format, but I've been having a horrible time writing
code that can cleanly parse Google Groups' data (talk about uglified
HTML!). Having access to the data in a cleaner form would sure make my
task easier.

Dan

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:41:29 GMT, Gandalf's nimble, little paws typed:

I'm a long time lurker here.

Back in 2003, I started saving posts, because I just didn't have time to
read them; I'm not very good at reading meow chat.

So now, many years later, I have over 32,000 saved posts. Once I started
saving a thread, I saved all of it, until there were no posts, to the
best of my knowledge.

I would like to pass them along to somebody, long and deeply involved
with RPCC, who can keep them, and perhaps pass them along to others.

I would have to send them on a USB jump drive; it would only work with a
PC.

The program can be run right off the USB jump drive, or be copied to a
hard drive.

I have used an old newsgroup reader program called Agent Forte; I got it
10 years ago, and it was old then.

But it keeps the posts in 'thread order', by date, with the author's
name, etc. I has been a very good program for reading newsgroups.

Recently, I have lost the entire saved contents of two other newsgroups,
including a huge number I had saved on rec.pets.cats.health+behav.

I am afraid the program may be deteriorating, and I do not want to lose
all the posts I saved on RPCC, as well, before I can pass them along.

And, once saved on another hard drive, they could be passed to other
people, using a jump drive.

Discuss this on the group, and pick one person you all feel would a good
person to send this irreplaceable history of this wonderful news group.

My E-mail address is good, but I don't want to receive E-mails from
individuals wanting the data; I want the person chosen by consensus in
this open forum.

If things should get ugly, and I certainly hope that doesn't happen, I
will withdraw my offer; permanently and irrevocably. I can, and I WILL.

So no Ego Trips, please. Lets keep this discussion positive.

Thank you.

Gandalf

I would prefer to keep it within the USA.

I have a USB jump drive


--
Purrs,

Mme. Anaïs

“I love cats because I take pleasure in my home; and little by
little, the cats become its visible soul.�
Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963

11/29/2008 12:48:13 PM

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:41:29 GMT, Gandalf's nimble, little paws typed:

I would like to pass them along to somebody, long and deeply involved
with RPCC, who can keep them, and perhaps pass them along to others.

Without a doubt, Dan Mahoney. He is an IT professional who can best
handle the data, and besides, he is a really nice guy who loves cats.

Dan, what do you think?
--
Purrs,

Mme. Anaïs

“I love cats because I take pleasure in my home; and little by
little, the cats become its visible soul.�
Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963

11/29/2008 12:48:53 PM

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:03:17 -0500, Adam's nimble, little paws typed:

Gandalf wrote:
Back in 2003, I started saving posts, because I just didn't have time to
read them; I'm not very good at reading meow chat.

So now, many years later, I have over 32,000 saved posts. Once I started
saving a thread, I saved all of it, until there were no posts, to the
best of my knowledge.

I would like to pass them along to somebody, long and deeply involved
with RPCC, who can keep them, and perhaps pass them along to others.

If nobody else is able, I could do it.

I can see where it would be more convenient than searching through
Google Groups' stored posts, but what other advantages would there be?

Adam

Google Goofs has a HORRIBLE, unwieldly (non-thread) format and adds
lots of crap to the posts. It's possibly the worst detractor to Usenet
in 30 years. It discourages newbies fromlearning how to use a real
news-reader and see how Usenet was made to be read and used.

Dump Mozilla and get a real news-reader and you'll see the
difference.

No offense, but Dan has the equipment and knowledge to safely archive
these and then re-distribute them.
--
Purrs,

Mme. Anaïs

“I love cats because I take pleasure in my home; and little by
little, the cats become its visible soul.�
Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963

11/29/2008 12:50:49 PM