Hi Neil,
 
I wrote the following a while ago , and may help.
 

All,

To those that replied thanks.

Replies to my original email are below:

SUMMARY:

In attempting to find the archives the only current way (as Sean Lamb suggested)

seems to be to send a command to the request address for each respective list.

The limit of the archive messages seems to be a maximum of the last 200

messages.

Unfortunately it means that you need to request the list to return a listing and

then request the list to send the messages one message at a time to your return

email address. The listing of messages only displays up to a four digit message

number, so you can't see what the message's subject is. The returned message

contains an attachment that contains the original posted message. Not really

easy to review either. (maybe the archives are actually an anti-pattern in of

themselves).

If you wish to try to get any of the messages you can send an email to the

respective request address, containing as appropriate some of the following

commands (omit the comments though):

Example: (NOTE WARNING ***)

send email to say: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <-- for

gang-of-4-patterns list......

in the body of the email use some of the following commands as required:

archive help <-- get list of commands

archive maxfiles n <-- 0 sets max number of files return to unlimited or

set to a n to limit files.

archive ls <-- list the directory structure of the archive

archive ls latest <-- list the latest directory

archive get latest/* <-- get all the messages in the latest directory

WARNING *** may return up to 200 email messages to

your email address!!!!

archive get latest/12 <-- get message 12 in the latest directory.

The approximate number of messages available through this method for each list

(name abbreviated) is:

anti 200

business 20

corba 150

dacm 80

gof 150

ipc 30

org 200

pattern-disc 200

patterns 69

scm 200

seimens 200

tel 100

Not a terribly successful exercise, hopefully the archives that were at

DistributedObjects.com can be restored somewhere in the near future for all

pattern interested parties to access.

regards,

Phil.

To my original email I received the following replies:

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1.

DistributedObjects used to be the archive. If they closed down

then as far as I know, there are no archives. I suppose we will

need to do something about that, but it won't happen for at least

a few months.

-Ralph Johnson

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2.

'Twas brillig Wednesday 13 March 2002 02:03, when philp9 scrobe:

> Can anyone tell me where the pattern group archives are located?

Here's part of a note that I sent to the list a few months ago about

archives...

--- Begin ---

On a hunch, I sent a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

the single word "help" in the body of the message. This returned a message

stating that the archives are available via ftp commands sent there through

email. Sending the command "ls latest" (latest is the name of the only

directory returned from an "ls" command) shows messages back to 10 April

2001. While this may not be the most intuitive or convenient method of

browsing the archives, they are there.

Sean Lamb, Software Engineer - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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3.

Phil,

I also tried looking at DistributedObjects.com and was unsuccessful in

finding the pattern info I was looking for. I don't have an answer to your

question, but I second it. If you do find out something, will you send it

along to me or the group?

Thanks,

Constance

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4.

Sorry, it was such a shock to see anything coming onto this list that at

first I ignored it. I can't tell you where the archives are but I can tell

you that only about five e-mails of use have been posted during the last two

years, so it may not even be worth a look. In fact the only e-mails that do

appear seem to be concerned with either unsubscribing or inviting you to a

conference.

Disappointing really.

Sorry

Andy

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-----Original Message-----

From: philp9 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:04 PM

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Subject: pattern groups archives

 

Hi,

I posted this to discussion earlier, but no responses:

Can anyone tell me where the pattern group archives are located?

I looked at the http://hillside.net/patterns/mailing.htm webpage and it refers

to www.DistributedObjects.com but that site seems to be up for sale? and no

archive access visible.

Have they been moved to somewhere else, or are they downloadable for somewhere

as a zip file?

Any help on locating them would be appreciated.....

Regards,

Phil.

-----Original Message-----
From: neil tran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 7 February 2003 1:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: is there an archive for telecom pattern

Hi,

I like to read up about pattern in telecom industry.. Is there an archive for telecom pattern.. Thanks



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