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Subject:Re: vanagon Digest - 5 Jun 2005 (#2005-459)
From:Stan Wilder
Date:Mon, 6 Jun 2005 11:44:27 -0500

Can't you just spider the site down?
Seems I got involved in a project about a year or three ago and someone just
spidered the total site down to three CDs.

Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Elliott" <j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: vanagon Digest - 5 Jun 2005 (#2005-459)

> I also second the motion. Would be right handy to have along on a trip.
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> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 83.5 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> KG6RCR
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> On 6/6/2005 10:43 AM Higginbotham, David A. wrote:
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> >I think that is a wonderful idea, especially since searching the
> >archives via dial-up is SOOOOO slow. I have broadband at work but on the
> >road or at home it is dial-up and usually I only get 34k anyway.
> >
> >David Higginbotham
> >82 Westfalia
> >Silk Hope, NC
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> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >
> >Date:    Sun, 5 Jun 2005 18:35:11 -0400
> >From:    Jorge Osorio <josorio@ATLAS.KENNESAW.EDU>
> >Subject: Vanagon Archives, the DVD Edition?
> >
> >I've been meaning to throw this idea in the ring for a while. given the
> >fact that the archives are a regularly used source for maintaining and
> >knowing "everything" there is to know about our beloved bricks, why not
> >store it offline on a couple of DVDs? I reckon at 4GB capacity most of
> >the content will fit in two DVDs. All we would have to figure out is how
> >to include the front-end searching capability. You could then pull over
> >in the middle of nowhere, flip open your laptop and voila! vanagon
> >archives on demand.
> >
> >Just a though, what do y'all think?
> >
> >Jorge
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> >
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