On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 07:27:38AM -0400, Chuck wrote: > I have found both to be very helpful. Mailing lists are excellent but for me > I > find it difficult to wait through a search of tens of thousands of msgs for > some content I am looking for. There is an extreme convenience in mailing
That's what a web engine is there for. The archives are world-visible. > lists in that, one.. they come into your home therefore seem more personal... They are also serialized, and do not require polling. Whenever I have to use a broken medium (such as e.g. Sveasoft, which is the only way they support their product), I find myself I have to enable email notification on responses to individual topics. Instead of having the answer delivered, I have to invoke a browser instance, and manually cut and paste the link (no, clicking doesn't work, because I read my mail from many places). Also, unlike web search engines, the forums' uniformly suck mossy rocks, both in speed and accuracy. > two you can maintain your own 'database' of sorts to search at your liesure > however it does get to be difficult when manipulating,say, 25,000 msgs. :) I don't find it difficult to manipulate well in excess of 100 k messages. The database is of primary value in case the original effort goes away, or data is destroyed by a disk crash with no backup (happens regularly). -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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