[b-greek] Re: Downloading of Archives

From: Stefan Botha (seeker@mailbox.co.za)
Date: Mon Jan 29 2001 - 16:11:06 EST


Thank you for the reply. The thing is, it is impossible for me to stay
online the whole daylong. Where I live, internet access is very expensive.
So I was wandering, maybe someone could do us all the very big favor of
placing the files in a few zip-files for downloading.

Stefan Botha


> At 6:11 PM -0500 1/27/01, Stefan Botha wrote:
> >Is there any possible way to make the archives downloadable? It's very
> >tiring and time-consuming trying to go through every single message
> >online. I believe many of the other members would also like to have it
> >converted and made available for downloading.
>
> This is a question that I have occasionally pondered; I have no doubt that
> it could be done (I do maintain my own complete archives on my hard drive
> where I find it easy to do instant searches with the Eudora 5.0 search
> engine) but I think IF it were done, it ought to be done officially and
> with the blessing of the whole B-Greek staff as well as the site housing
> it. As it stands there are two sizable lacunae in the two sets of archives
> (before and after June of 1998), and I'm hoping we can get those filled.
> For the time being, note that it is possible to search 500 messages at a
> time and to set the search at the main site to whatever starting date you
> want: it's not quite a matter of one at a time. But of course, however the
> selection works, one must read the messages one at a time. I'm not sure
> that there's any answer to this question likely at any early date.
>
> Please note that B-Greek list protocol requires personal signatures; I have
> checked membership and added the name to the above message which came in
> anonymously from "Seeker."
>
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