Re: Archives (was Re: PCI Clock Specs and PLL)

["chefren" <chefren@pi.net>]

On 28 Jan 97 at 11:48, John R Pierce wrote:

> > 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


Hm...

A) A simple but effective version is not that difficult I
think: One only has to make all messages available as loose
piece files and compile one index file with the URL's of
them. After that everybody can give the URL of this index
file to Alta Vista and after a few day's the search engine
is there. Users can limit the searches bij specifie-ing the
ZNYX <Thanks for maintaining this list guys!!!> address in
the search criteria.

B) In general I don't like my personal expressions to be
found so easilly on the Web. In this case I wouldn't have
problems with granting my author rights for this further
use of my input.

+++chefren
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