My impression (and a check of a few random weeks in 2008) suggests we average perhaps 5 posts a day, so ~1500 to 2000 posts a year. Allowing for that I think the list was more active a few years ago, I'd guess that means perhaps 10K to 15K posts in total. A bot that downloaded, say, 1 post every 5 seconds would complete that in a day. Make that a few days if we wanted to preserve the other lists on the server too.
Simon On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:05:59 -0400, John Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How large is the archive, any idea? I was wondering if zipping annual or >semi-annual chunks might be do-able and set that out for download. Since >this is text I would think the compression rate would be pretty good. But >a huge archive even compressed could be unwieldy to download. > >John Warner > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:ADVANCED- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Robinson >> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:01 AM >> To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM >> Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Has the list died? >> >> Well if all else fails I'd be quite happy to write a little bot to >> download and parse the archive of messages (if Richard doesn't mind the >> temporary load on the server), then for now I can tuck them away >somewhere >> on my site. (I was tempted to do that when Richard first announced the >> taking the list offline, but held off as it looked like there were going >> to be other solutions; I'm now starting to regret not doing that earlier >> since this is pushing up to the deadline - I may write it anyway just to >> be safe). >> >> It's not ideal as it'd be without the listserver software, just the >posts >> plus some basic pages to allow browsing/viewing them. In other words, >> archive only unless/until I code up some .aspx pages to handle posting, >> which could take a week or two as I'm quite busy at the moment. But if >> nothing else happens to save the list... >> >> Simon >> >> >> >> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:33:00 +0100, Richard Blewett >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >I'm still working on getting the list rehosted >> > >> >Rich >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:ADVANCED- >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Warner >> >> Sent: 23 September 2008 14:08 >> >> To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM >> >> Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Has the list died? >> >> >> >> I've not seen anything from Efran on the subject in over a week. Has >> >> anyone >> >> else that can do so made any progress? I agree I'd hate to see this >and >> >> a >> >> couple of other lists on the server just die. >> >> >> >> John Warner >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> >> > From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. >> >> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> Seref >> >> Arikan >> >> > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:03 AM >> >> > To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM >> >> > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Has the list died? >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > Feels kinda sad to see this conversation. Being a lazy a.. I >> >> > have to ask: has there been a decision for the future of the list? >> >> > >> >> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Peter Vertes >> >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > > I'm still here and I got your message. This I have not received >> >> > > anything else from the list the past few days. Yours was the >first >> >> > > message this week >> >> > > >> >> > > -Pete >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > On 9/23/08, John Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > > > Just testing I forgot what date they said they would kill the >> >> list >> >> > > > >> >> > > > John Warner >> >> > > > >> >> > > > =================================== >> >> > > > This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(R) http://www.develop.com >> >> > > > >> >> > > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at >> >> > > http://discuss.develop.com >> >> > > > >> >> > > >> >> > > -- >> >> > > Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com >> >> > > >> >> > > =================================== >> >> > > This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(R) http://www.develop.com >> >> > > >> >> > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at >> >> > > http://discuss.develop.com >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> > =================================== >> >> > This list is hosted by DevelopMentorR http://www.develop.com >> >> > >> >> > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at >> >> > http://discuss.develop.com >> >> > >> >> >> >> =================================== >> >> This list is hosted by DevelopMentor. http://www.develop.com >> >> >> >> View archives and manage your subscription(s) at >> >> http://discuss.develop.com >> > >> >=================================== >> >This list is hosted by DevelopMentorR http://www.develop.com >> > >> >View archives and manage your subscription(s) at >> http://discuss.develop.com >> >> =================================== >> This list is hosted by DevelopMentorR http://www.develop.com >> >> View archives and manage your subscription(s) at >http://discuss.develop.com > >=================================== >This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com > >View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
