Re: Has the list died?

My impression (and a check of a few random weeks in 2008) suggests we
average perhaps 5 posts a day, so ~1500 to 2000 posts a year. Allowing for
that I think the list was more active a few years ago, I'd guess that
means perhaps 10K to 15K posts in total.  A bot that downloaded, say, 1
post every 5 seconds would complete that in a day. Make that a few days if
we wanted to preserve the other lists on the server too.

Simon

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:05:59 -0400, John Warner <[email protected]> wrote:

>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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