Accessing the B-Greek Archives

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Oct 1 11:17:16 EDT 1999


At 11:46 AM +0800 10/1/99, Jeffrey L. Shelton wrote:
>Hi Carl:
>
>I am a missionary in the Philippines, have been for 16 years almost, I run a
>Bible Seminary, Christian School, plant autonomous churches, etc. I'm so
>busy that I rarely get the opportunity to write anything here, so, mostly I
>just browse when I get the chance. . . .I just wanted to ask how does
>one >access the archives?
>
>Blessings
>Jeffrey L. Shelton
>President, Cebu Bible College

I have been asked about accessing the B-Greek Archives; since this question
comes up from time to time and there is some confusion owing to the fact
that there are two separate archives, and owing also to the fact that there
are two lacunae or gaps in the existing archives. About these lacunae I
should say that the archives for those time periods are not lost--they
simply have not been incorporated into the web archives yet; a fair amount
of work is involved in combining the message files into a format that can
be catalogued and searched readily with a search engine; the software is
available to do this work, but it IS time-consuming, and all of us who are
involved in administration of the list do it in time left-over from our
regular work. So: some day the archives will be completed, and perhaps
incorporated into a single corpus that is more easily searchable, but that
lies in an indefinite and not immediately foreseeable future. At any rate,
here's a listing of what we have available and how to get to each item.
I've listed each item in a format that will allow mail programs (such as
Eudora, or web-browser mail programs) so-equipped to click on URLs and go
directly in their web-browsers to the archive for which they are looking.

Let me note some caveats which should, but may not be, obvious:

(1) You'll have to know where the thread you're looking for is, i.e., when
it took place.

(2) There are two separate sites:
  (a) for archives from the years that the list was located at
majordomo at virginia.edu, the essential URL is:
	http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/
  (b) archives since the list was relocated at our present site in Chapel
Hill, NC are housed at the main web site of the mailing list, at the URL:
	http://franklin.oit.unc.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=b-greek&text_mode=0
(3) If you don't know whether a topic has been dealt with or when, you can
do a search at either set of archives, but when you do, take into
consideration that subject-headers vary considerably and that Biblical book
names have been spelled and abbreviated in quite a variety of ways.

Here's the complete listing of dates and URLs:

For archives AFTER June 28, 1998, go to URL:
http://franklin.oit.unc.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=b-greek&text_mode=0

For archives FROM 	May 7, 1998 	THRU	July 28, 1998, go to URL:
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/current/date.html#start

GAP/LACUNA/HIATUS: Dec 1, 1997 thru May 6, 1998

For archives FROM 	Nov 1, 1997 	THRU 	Nov 30 1997, go to URL:
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/97-11/

For archives FROM 	Sep 25, 1997	THRU	Nov 1, 1997, go to URL:
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/97-10/

For archives FROM	Aug 30,  1997     THRU	Oct 1, 1997, go to URL:
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/97-09/

For archives FROM 	Jul 30, 1997	THRU	Aug 31, 1997, go to URL:
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/97-08/

For archives FROM	Jun 1, 1997	THRU	Aug 1, 1997, go to URL:
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/97-07/

For archives FROM 	Jun 18, 1997	THRU	Jun 19, 1997, go to URL:
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/97-06/

For archives FROM	May 7, 1997 	THRU	Jun 26, 1997, go to URL:
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/97-05/

For archives FROM	Mar 1, 1997	THRU	May 1, 1997, go to URL:
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/97-03/

For archives FROM 	Jan 30, 1997	THRU	Mar 1, 1997, go to URL:
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/97-02/

For archives FROM 	Dec 3, 1996	THRU	Jan 30, 1997, go to URL:
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/96-12/

For archives FROM 	Oct 26, 1996	THRU	Dec 4, 1996, go to URL:
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/96-11/

For archives FROM 	Jul 30, 1996	THRU	Nov 2, 1996, go to URL:
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/96-08/

GAP/LACUNA/HIATUS: June 1996

For archives FROM 	Jul 1994	THRU	Mar 1996, go to URL:
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/greek-3/threads.html

For archives FROM 	Jul 1993	THRU	Jul 1994, go to URL:
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/greek-2/threads.html

For archives FROM	May 1992 	THRU 	Jun 1993, go to URL:
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/greek-1/threads.html


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics/Washington University
One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018
Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu 
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