[REBOL] Question: Move the REBOL List? Re:(3)
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would prefer a main-rebol newsgroup. > (comp.lang.rebol) > > So we would have archive and web-functionality through > dejanews. Furthermore newsgroups are IMHO better to handle > with this daily amount of posts. > If this is all you want, egroups would be the better choice because their system is much better than what deja provides for newsgroups. Also, creating a new comp newsgroup will undoubtedly take months. Even if we were to go through the procedure for creating the group, there is no gauruntee it would pass. Moving to egroups will be the best short term solution. If we want to create a newsgroup as well, that would be okay. "I haven't played D&D for a long time but I don't recall ever hearing my DM say "your hero is trapped by a chair and cannot move." - farleybarnstorm on Baulder's Gate -- Jagged Alliance 2 FAQ: http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~bcr19374/ja2faq.html JADG Mailing List: http://www.onelist.com/group/jadg/
[REBOL] Question: Move the REBOL List? Re:(3)
How come, that the archive won't fit a CD-ROM ? I have archived all the messages to the REBOL list since -97 (the core/alpha days), and during 2000, I have received anything between 500 and 1400 messages per month.. The lists have existed about three years now, which will allow about 18MB of mails per month to fill up a CD.. 18MB and 1500 messages gives an average mail size of 12k (assuming that the list received 1500 messages a month in November -97)... As I can see from the yet unsorted 1704 messages during September and October, the REBOL list's average message size is about 2-3k, which is also true for the Ally list (which have received about 2200 mails since middle of February) Back in the time when it was possible to get digests of the messages, the maximum size of the 100-message mail I got was 330k. /PeO > That would be good. For the archive, Scott mentioned that it is so large now that >it does not fit on a CD-ROM. Perhaps if we compressed it? Scott? > > -Carl > > At 10/10/00 08:25 PM -0500, you wrote: > >Carl- > > > >So long as the list continues to send e-mail to the eScribe archive, I'm all > >for it (smart search engine there.) > > > >Also, is there any way you can make all past messages available in some kind > >of package? I could then update the eScribe archive with messages before July > >2000. > > > >-Ryan > > > >>It's great to have so much activity happening with REBOL these days. > >>Unfortunately, our servers are overloading. We're starting to have gigabyte > >>days. While it is good to have all this activity, it is making life > >>difficult for a few folks around here. What would you think if we were to > >>move this main list to a site like egroups.com? That would also give you web > >>access to archives, file lists, and other features. > >> > >>Your thoughts? > >> > >>-Carl > >> > >> > >> > >> > >
[REBOL] Question: Move the REBOL List? Re:(3)
I would also prefer it on egroups. Wasn't there a list already created by the name "rebol"? If not, who is going to create it and create/maintain list? Rishi Previously, you ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Carl wrote: > > What would you think if we were to move this main list to a site like > egroups.com? > > Fine with me. > > Andrew Martin > ICQ: 26227169 > http://members.nbci.com/AndrewMartin/ > -><- > > >
[REBOL] Question: Move the REBOL List? Re:(3)
Hello: It would be great if a way were found to index ... normalize etc. the archive into a formal database. After all, this list is a tremendous asset. JMTCW Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That would be good. For the archive, Scott mentioned that it is so large now that >it does not fit on a CD-ROM. Perhaps if we compressed it? Scott? > > -Carl > > At 10/10/00 08:25 PM -0500, you wrote: > >Carl- > > > >So long as the list continues to send e-mail to the eScribe archive, I'm all > >for it (smart search engine there.) > > > >Also, is there any way you can make all past messages available in some kind > >of package? I could then update the eScribe archive with messages before July > >2000. > > > >-Ryan > > > >>It's great to have so much activity happening with REBOL these days. > >>Unfortunately, our servers are overloading. We're starting to have gigabyte > >>days. While it is good to have all this activity, it is making life > >>difficult for a few folks around here. What would you think if we were to > >>move this main list to a site like egroups.com? That would also give you web > >>access to archives, file lists, and other features. > >> > >>Your thoughts? > >> > >>-Carl > >> > >> > >> > >>
