web archive & listproc help (was: Collecting computers - the book...

From: Ward D. Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Tue Feb 2 23:55:26 1999

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Stephen Dauphin wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Bill Yakowenko wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, kstumpf_at_unusual.on.ca (Unusual systems) wrote:
> > ] ... To make matters even worse, the
> > ] Classiccmp archive maintained by Kevan Heydon (many thanks man), also
> > ] suffered from a technical glitch and needed to be restored. ...
>
> Has this been discussed before? Can Kevan, or anyone help him, get a
> search engine on that stuff. It's a bear finding anything in that
> archive.
>
> Or am I lame and just missed seeing a serch mechanism?

Well, I've picked up messages from the list through Yahoo and Altavista.
Including some of my own. I'm of seriously mixed emotions concerning
web-accessible mailing list archives (Usenet archives are different --
you _know_ that everything you type is being archived by somebody), as
I've traditionally considered mailing lists "semi-private". Since I
belong to a few where I damned well know there are lurkers with
intentions far from honorable due to their status as government goons.
(Although it can be a dangerous job -- some govgoons have been corrupted
by libertarian thinking and thereby ruined for their former profession).
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then 
you'll just take the fall"                                Michael Longcor
Received on Tue Feb 02 1999 - 23:55:26 GMT

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