Great idea Wes - thanks!

I really like the idea of the Archives being in more than one place too,
just for safety's sake.  :-)

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Pickle (wes) <greenvanagon@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey everybody with gmail.
>
> I'm working on putting together a master file of emails so that it will
> be possible to easily import all the past vanagon emails into gmail,
> using the method suggested by Tim here.  I will host the file with
> easy-to-follow instructions sometime over the next few days on a
> webserver where people can download it.
>
> So let's not all hammer gerry trying to do this all at once!
>
> -Wes
>
> honemastert wrote:
>
>> Fellow Vanagon Listee's
>>
>> It's not exactly easy, but not that
>> difficult either:
>>
>> Yes the GET command
>> is what I used, but you have to first get
>> a list of the archive files.
>>
>> send an email to gerry
>> listserv@gerry.vanagon.com
>> with the subject:   VANAGON FILELIST
>>
>> That gives you an archive list.. then I used
>> gnu emacs (any text editor with 'rectangular'
>> (e.g. columnar cut/paste)will work,
>>  to formulate a list  of 'GET' commands..
>>
>> So.. see the following snipping of the
>> return of the first command......
>>
>>
>> date  Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 3:34 PM
>> subject       "VANAGON FILELIST"
>>
>> Reply
>>
>> *
>> * Archive files for the vanagon list at GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> * (weekly logs)
>> *
>> * filename      filetype        GET PUT size (bytes) date       time
>> * --------      --------        --- --- ------------ ---------- --------
>>  VANAGON       LOG9404         LOG OWN      766,788 1998-04-20 15:37:24
>>  VANAGON       LOG9405         LOG OWN      501,033 1998-04-20 15:37:44
>>  VANAGON       LOG9406         LOG OWN      100,917 1998-03-05 18:38:00
>>  VANAGON       LOG9407         LOG OWN      792,711 1998-04-20 15:38:16
>>  VANAGON       LOG9408         LOG OWN    1,501,131 1998-04-20 15:39:16
>>  VANAGON       LOG9409         LOG OWN    1,514,406 1998-04-20 15:40:44
>>  VANAGON       LOG9410         LOG OWN    1,560,470 1998-04-20 15:41:02
>>  VANAGON       LOG9411         LOG OWN    1,833,551 1998-04-20 15:42:34
>>  VANAGON       LOG9412         LOG OWN      477,582 1998-04-20 15:44:00
>> ...
>> ....
>> .....
>>
>> Then you send another formatted email like the following to
>> gerry (same address as above)
>>
>> You can put these commands in the body of the email as I recall..
>>
>> Want to grab the first few? (the filename's changed BTW, so this still
>> doesnt preclude running the 'FLIELIST' command for yourself!
>>
>>  GET VANAGON        LOG0001
>>  GET VANAGON        LOG0002
>>  GET VANAGON        LOG0003
>>  GET VANAGON        LOG0004
>>  GET VANAGON        LOG0005
>> ...
>> ....
>> .....
>>
>> The cool thing is now that I have Google desktop search
>> enabled on my Windows or Mac, it will cache a local copy
>> of the search index on said machine.  Then I dont need to
>> necessarily be connected to the internet to retrieve the
>> info I'm looking for.  (of course, you have to be connected
>> for the initial indexing to work)
>>
>> This takes the methods the other folks are using a step
>> further and makes it more portable/avail offline.
>>
>> It is true though, most everything has been discussed about
>> these vans 'ad naseaum' :-) so the early archives dont
>> necessarily reveal any new info that the last 5 years or
>> so dont contain.  It is cool to be able to search by
>> name of poster, say Dennis Haynes, Benny Boy, Boston Bob (RIP)
>> and many of the other list 'illuminati'
>>
>>
>> hope this helps, but that being said.. please dont go
>> hammering the server with a ton of these commands, I'd
>> imagine if everyone does this, it's gonna bring gerry
>> to his knees!
>>
>> All the listserv commands can be retrieved by issuing
>> a 'help' message to gerry.
>>
>>
>>  -tim
>>
>>
>> 90 syncro westy
>> gilbert, az
>>
>> http://www.timschneider.org
>>
>>
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