Re: AS mailing list
Albert Dorofeev albert@mail.dma.be
Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:17:12 +0100 (CET)
Ok, for the sake of scientific interest :)
try out the mailing list archive at
http://www.tigr.net/cgi-bin/ml.cgi
and tell me what you think of it. Especially
the speed. The script extracts every requested
message (including indexes) from a gzipped archive.
Yes, I know it is a waste of resources :)
Tigr
David Mihm writes:
> On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Albert Dorofeev wrote:
>
> ! Hi!
> !
> ! I was experimenting here with the AS mailing list archive.
> ! I collected the list for the past five days. It takes up
> ! 112 kb for five days. I thought that was a bit too much
> ! of space. If I am to archive the list _and_ provide web access
> ! to it I think of the following scheme:
> !
> ! I archive the list for each month separately
> !
> ! I hypermail the list which will make a nice
> ! indexed set of html pages of it
> !
> ! I tar and gzip the resulted list
> !
> ! and provide access via a CGI script that will
> ! extract the necessary piece on-the-fly
> !
> ! This way I store 18 kb instead of 112 kb on disk. During
> ! a year that projects into approx. 14 MB of data. I think
> ! I could live with that for a couple of years :)
> !
> ! Of course, I realize that extracting pages is a slow process
> ! but 1) I hope it ain't too slow and 2) I have to be very
> ! disk space conscious since I have to pay for it :(
> !
> ! Would it be better to try and come up with an alternative
> ! solution that would place every mail into the same archive
> ! rather than dividing it by month? What would be the life-span
> ! of such an archive? Eternity? :)
> !
> ! Ok, give me some alternatives now, fellows.
> !
> ! Tigr
> !
> Sounds good to me, but I'd hate for this to be out of pocket
> expenses for you. We might possibly find someone to host the list - I
> know there was others who offered a while back. I believe that a new host
> for the mailing list is in order as well and this location might host the
> archives as well.
> But for now, I suppose we could test your arrangement. I have
> several months of the list on my ftp that you could grab and incorporate;
> the url is:
> ftp://ftp.the-site.loonybin.net/pub/Linux/AfterStep/mailarchives/
> Don't ask me how I have two sets for September (9 & 9b), I don't know what
> happened there. :)
>
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