I have over 85,000 messages from Palm's forums in news format. I have much less than that in mail format. Have you ever tried to request 85,000 messages from a mail server (even using a scripted language)?
This way was much easier for me. However, since I started using Eudora again (which supports Unix mbox format), I might just spend some time to see if I can convert to this format from Outlook Express. -Dave -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Ardiri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 11:55 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Unusable newsgroups > Some of us prefer to read the lists using a news client. > > For example, I have a local copy of all the palm-dev-forum > messages (which does take forever to sync up), but I can search > all of them using my own CPU time. In addition, it is very difficult > and much more server-unfriendly to search the list archives using > the mail interface. > > I am much more productive as a result, and this is less taxing on > Palm's already overburdened servers. hmm.. tell me how using email doesn't let you do this? i have an account specifically setup for mailing lists and it downloads and filters into its own little folder on my harddrive. i dont even wait for the thing to sync. it does it automatically (my machine is always on) and, if i leave it for a day or two, it takes at max a minute to sync the last few days.. now, if you leave your email on a server - thats another issue. there is, of course, a better alternative - and, thats to use a public archiving of the developer forums such as www.escribe.com it is much better to have a local copy tho, i am proud to admit i manually imported all my mbox emails into outlook express and sorted the various forums (email from 1998 - now) before i officially dropped my mail account at the university :) if anyone is looking for mbx based archives - i might be able to help :) there are utilities to convert from mbx --> others too. i did check that before doing the migration (which, took a day) -- Aaron Ardiri CEO - CTO Mobile Wizardry http://www.mobilewizardry.com/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
