Jason, Matthew, Thanks for talking about this, gents. It's important.
If e-scribe is permanently down, then we don't *have* an archive from that source to start with. In fact, that mass of data really is more Scott's property than ours or mine. If he decides not to restore escribe and can be persuaded to part with the data, then good. In setting up the e-scribe archives, Scott and his partners had developed software that was able to take the existing message archives off my hard drive (several years worth) and parse it into the format needed to appear on the web site. I e-mailed them the data and they filtered it to remove most of the nasty formatting cruft and leave just the text. That would be a bit of work to duplicate. For a replacement, we would have to start with what's on somebody's hard disk. Mine is all but complete back to the day I joined in '98, with only a few problems here or there. There are between 300 and 400 megabytes. Probably over 80000 individual messages. I don't know how feasible it is to go through that many messages to pick which ones are worthwhile. I'm sure you could cut 75% of them and not lose the core information, but it's a huge undertaking. Probably simpler to make sure the whole thing is there and make it searchable with a quality search engine (better than the one at e-scribe). Don't let anything I say be a discouragement. We ought to be able to solve this problem. Be well, Mike D. > Hi, Jason, > > Yes, such a project would be great. But the workload > would be immense. Thanks for offering to pitch in. I > wonder if anybody else wants to get involved in such > an project? And, more importantly, what does Mike > Devour think about it? (And how many megabytes are > we talking about?) > > I'll bet the archives are so vast and now so rich with content > that editing them would be beneficial whether or not > normal service is restored. > > Best regards, > > Matthew [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
