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Regarding the
web-based archives...I have some bad news and some good news.
:-/
First, the bad
news is that my down-and-dirty method of using the large monthly logfiles as a
way to get Google to add these discussions was a failure because Google
apparently sets a limit on the page size it will index. And nothing that Lsoft
provided would provide the necessary files.
The good news is
that this forced me to actually go down the road of using some real list
archiving software. Fortunately there is some decent GNU freeware out there
for this purpose. The result is that after tinkering most of today with it, I've
got web-based discussion list archives of this list's entire history up and
running with sorting by thread or date! I can incrementally update
this archive, so depending on volume I can update it monthly, weekly, or
whatever. And it ought to be a format that will make Google happy
too.
In the conversion
process from Outlook to Thunderbird (Mozilla) to Mhonarc, it lost some
of the extra html formatting on many of the posts, but for the most part,
the content came through unscathed. It even brought over message attachments (I
think there was only only one - but it was something Judith posted written by
her father.) This was better than I had hoped. In the future, I'll have copies
of posts go directly to Thunderbird which should (in theory, anyway) allow
html formatting to be fully retained.
You can check them
out at: www.panmere.com/rosen/mhout/maillist.html
Let me know what
you think. In the future, I'll look into adding search capabilities to it, but
right now I have to give my brain a little rest. :)
Regards,
Tim
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