This is something is started for another list I work with.  Stopped after a
month of trying to write various filters and retesting and retesting.
The difficulties are:
1. bad subject line
2. missing subject line
3. totally of subject subject line
4. then the edit to extract the pertinent data.

This means trying to search on content as well as subject for filtering to
the relevant messages and then trying to thread them to a meaningful listing
that can be databased.

May try again sometime but it will be many hours to put out a meaningful and
useful product. If I do try it again I would be billing but definitely not
at a profit level.  When I was first looking at it I was looking at about
7.00 per CD mailed in US for that list. If this list is the normal list
about 10 gigs of mail space will equate to about 500 megs of useable data
for a database.

However someone gave me an idea of another route I may try which I could
simply upload a file onto the server that could be downloaded at will and
not to hard to occasionally update.  Would be useable on windows or mac or
unix.

jimt

On 6/6/05 10:11 AM, "JordanVw@AOL.COM" <JordanVw@AOL.COM> wrote:

> In a message dated 6/5/05 6:42:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> josorio@ATLAS.KENNESAW.EDU writes:
>
>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>
>
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> good idea.  but who is going to do it?
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