On 7/6/06, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So the silk archive at yahoogroups [1] is acting up. Earlier messages are randomly becoming inaccessible, as of a few days ago. The earliest message that can now be reached is #195, whereas yesterday it was #185, and a couple of days ago it was #75. It is not clear to me what the logic behind this is. It can't possibly be some FIFO limit being reached - silk has a total of some 16k messages so far since December 1997, and many lists I'm aware of on yahoogroups have messages in the multiples of that number.
Can't our Silklist spies in Yahoo look into this? I recall mmk being able to help me with some weird timezone problem I had back in 2002.
Shall we start off an alternate one? The conditions are that it needs to be a) complete; and b) searchable.
I am all for an alternate archive. It isn't that difficult to run mhonarc to convert mbox to html. And the Googlebot will make it searchable.
Any thoughts? Bharath, I know you were playing with putting all silk messages into a database - what is the current status of that?
Why a database? They are not as malleable as text. Thaths -- "Grand Funk Railroad paved the way for Jefferson airplane, which cleared the way for Jefferson starship. The stage was now set for the Alan Parsons project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft." -- Homer J. Simpson
