On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:33:27AM -0400, Vernon Densler wrote:
> Yes in a way. The one on my server replaces the @ with the word at so that
> automated systems can't pick it up. The other one just hides it.
>
> As far as the difference, well the one on mail-archive.com is searchable and
> the one on my server is not. If you wanted to search the archives on mine
> you would have to download the text files for each month and search them
> yourself.
Vern, if you need a searchable backup archive, I can help you out. A few
months back, I created an archive mirror for another group that I'm in:
with the help of a volunteer list that I organized, we pulled down all
the posts (Yahoo only allows you to download a small number of posts at
any one time), processed them via a Perl script that I wrote to extract
all the useful info and turn it back into a mail archive, and uploaded
them into a database. In addition, I wrote a bot that checks the group
every day, pulls down any new posts, and adds them to the database. In
addition, I created a nice searchable interface for the whole thing. All
the group members love it - and if Yahoo should ever shut that group
down (as they've done to a number of groups without any rhyme or
reason), we won't lose any more than a day's worth of posts.
I suspect it would be fairly easy for me to tweak my scripts to
accomodate the LA archive structure, so you'd end up with a searchable
archive as well.
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