Archives (was Re: PCI Clock Specs and PLL)

["John R Pierce" <pierce@hogranch.com>]

> It would be REALLY handy (and, I suspect, would cut down on 
> e-mail traffic considerably) if the PCI Sig archives were accessable
> from the Web site.  The present method is cumbersome at best 
> (though I do appreciate the effort involved in setting it up & keeping
> it working) and prevents all but the most intrepid explorer from 
> finding what they're after, thus leading to more quesions on the
> mail alias.
> 
> I realize that this is not a trivial request, but there is so much valuable
> information in this forum that it seems a shame to bury it in a 
> data warehouse of ZIP and TAR files.

In my 'saved mail' folder here, I count 1075 msgs in just pci-sig since 5/96
when my collection started. 

For such a pile to be useful on a website, it would require extensive indexing
and a search capability similar to Excite.  I suspect setting something like
this up would require several weeks of a web-wizards time to setup the archival
process, handle the mess of previously saved data, and probably a dedicated web
server...  Any volunteers?  

-jrp
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