Re: Has the list died?

How large is the archive, any idea? I was wondering if zipping annual or
semi-annual chunks might be do-able and set that out for download. Since
this is text I would think the compression rate would be pretty good. But
a huge archive even compressed could be unwieldy to download.

John Warner

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:ADVANCED-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Simon Robinson
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:01 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Has the list died?
>
> Well if all else fails I'd be quite happy to write a little bot to
> download and parse the archive of messages (if Richard doesn't mind the
> temporary load on the server), then for now I can tuck them away
somewhere
> on my site. (I was tempted to do that when Richard first announced the
> taking the list offline, but held off as it looked like there were going
> to be other solutions; I'm now starting to regret not doing that earlier
> since this is pushing up to the deadline - I may write it anyway just to
> be safe).
>
> It's not ideal as it'd be without the listserver software, just the
posts
> plus some basic pages to allow browsing/viewing them. In other words,
> archive only unless/until I code up some .aspx pages to handle posting,
> which could take a week or two as I'm quite busy at the moment. But if
> nothing else happens to save the list...
>
> Simon
>
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:33:00 +0100, Richard Blewett
> <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >I'm still working on getting the list rehosted
> >
> >Rich
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:ADVANCED-
> >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of John Warner
> >> Sent: 23 September 2008 14:08
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Has the list died?
> >>
> >> I've not seen anything from Efran on the subject in over a week. Has
> >> anyone
> >> else that can do so made any progress? I agree I'd hate to see this
and
> >> a
> >> couple of other lists on the server just die.
> >>
> >> John Warner
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics.
> >> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Seref
> >> Arikan
> >> > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:03 AM
> >> > To: [email protected]
> >> > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Has the list died?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Feels kinda sad to see this conversation. Being a lazy a.. I
> >> > have to ask: has there been a decision for the future of the list?
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Peter Vertes
> >> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > I'm still here and I got your message. This I have not received
> >> > > anything else from the list the past few days. Yours was the
first
> >> > > message this week
> >> > >
> >> > > -Pete
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > On 9/23/08, John Warner <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > > > Just testing I forgot what date they said they would kill the
> >> list
> >> > > >
> >> > > > John Warner
> >> > > >
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