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On Nov 29, 5:22*pm, Daniel Mahoney wrote:
In article , *"Granby" wrote: You and Dan were the ones I was thinking about so, you guys figure it out....ain't whatcha know, 'tis who ya know!!!! Well, I'd be glad to get ahold of Gandalf's data, but if Heather wants it as well I'd also be glad to get a copy from her. I can also put the raw data online for download once I've got a copy. Dan Anything that would help with putting the website together would be greatly appreciated. I wouldn't want to be the one responsible for the original, but a copy would be nice. Heather |
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On Nov 29, 8:42*pm, "Mme. Anaïs ^..^" wrote:
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:36:18 -0800 (PST), 's nimble, little paws typed: 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, IMO, Dan is the person that should have the data inasmuch as he has both the knowledge and equipment to archive it; as he said, he'll be glad to give you acceess to it. -- 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 8:40:17 PM I'm in perfect agreement with you on that. In fact, as I said in an earlier message, I wouldn't want the responbility of the master archive. I would appreciate a copy though. Heather |
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Mme. Anaïs ^..^ wrote:
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? 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 from learning how to use a real news-reader and see how Usenet was made to be read and used. But what else is there for most NG archives? Dump Mozilla and get a real news-reader and you'll see the difference. What would you recommend? No offense, but Dan has the equipment and knowledge to safely archive these and then re-distribute them. Unanimous agreement on that! Adam |
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On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:28:26 -0500, Adam wrote:
Mme. Anaïs ^..^ wrote: 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? 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 from learning how to use a real news-reader and see how Usenet was made to be read and used. But what else is there for most NG archives? Dump Mozilla and get a real news-reader and you'll see the difference. What would you recommend? Forte Agent with Giganews. No offense, but Dan has the equipment and knowledge to safely archive these and then re-distribute them. Unanimous agreement on that! No actually. Anyone can do it. All the stuff from early 2003 on is still on the Giganews server. You can get it all for free with the Giganews free trial. Download a cracked Agent, then set it up with Giganews, then get all headers for this newsgroup. Adam |
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On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:28:26 -0500, Adam's nimble, little paws typed:
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 from learning how to use a real news-reader and see how Usenet was made to be read and used. But what else is there for most NG archives? Unfortunately nothing but the premium news-servers who may - or may not - have some, but not all pasts postings. When Google bought Deja-News, they destroyed the best Unsenet archive extant! When Dan tried to re-create the Orient Express adventure (which went on for months and had thousands of posts) it was impossible, even with his scripts, to remove the munged HTML that Google injected, much less to restore them in the order posted. Dump Mozilla and get a real news-reader and you'll see the difference. What would you recommend? Some people like Agent; I never have. I like and use Dialog; it is VERY customizable, and has a very strong and capable killfile; you can even use scripts in it, as well as score and then color specific posters and threads in different colors (e.g. in busy groups, I have the threads in which I have posted show up in navy-blue; people who are pests in light grey and so on). I NEVER see cross posts and it can even killfile all google posters, which I am thinking of doing. If you get it, I'll give you my killfile for cross posters. There's a tutorial online, and it's free: http://www.40tude.com/dialog/index.htm No offense, but Dan has the equipment and knowledge to safely archive these and then re-distribute them. Unanimous agreement on that! Adam -- 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 11:12:01 PM |
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Well, maybe I was wrong about that. Anyway, appreciate your saving all
those posts and the way in which you saved them. When Dan gets it altogether, it will help the one doing the website as well as anyone who is trying to reconstruct things that happened on rpca. "Granby" wrote in message ... We don't too often have ego trips here. Sometimes people head butt over silly things but not that often. wrote in message ... 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 |
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