Re: [cobalt-users] newsgroup server

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:17 PM 8/21/00 -0700, you wrote:
> Personally, I'm all in favor of a private news-server serving the
> cobalt.* hierarchy.
>
> That said, let me answer something of yours inline:
>
> Rodolfo Paiz wrote:
>
> > However, I must ask (out of ignorance): while I would be much happier
> > using news on a daily basis, several times already my 2000 stored
> > messages from this list have functioned as my personal archives when I
> > was offline and helped me more quickly diagnose a problem.
>
> My personal archive of cobalt-users is over 7700 messages.
>
> > Is there any
> > easy way to do this? Otherwise, I personally would be much happier using
> > *both* methods... reading news but having another computer/account
> > download all the mail messages and store them.
>
> As long as you download all the news before it expires, you can keep it
> on your own system indefinitely.
>
> Cobalt, since the server would be private, could agree to never expire
> the posts.
>
> Cobalt could set up a web-based archive for the posts.
>
> Last (but in my opinion least desirable because it would make our email
> addresses extremely public) Cobalt could arrange with deja to archive
> the posts.

Gnu has made a filter so email addresses would look like
"username at subdomain dot domain dot com"

That's a good start for the archives.
May be googles search engine can provide searchable indexes of the archives.
Google happens to search quite well (IMHO) on problem type questions.

2 Minutes of google is arguably better the a raw archive :-)

Bye

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