On Sunday 18 January 2004 12:19, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:
Larry Troxler wrote:
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questions of good indexing. Google is your friend.
Speaking of mailing list archives, what happened to the good old days
where you could just FTP a massive tarball of the last years messages and
search through it on your own machine, using you own methods?
It seems that for most mailing lists now, the only way to get at the
archives is through a browser or search engine that is run on the server.
Why is this? The information still has to be stored on the server,
regardless.
the probable reason is that ftp downloads of full archives put quite a
burden on the server, especially if someone has to pay per byte.
consider how many thousands of online queries correspond to the
bandwidth usage of just one full download.
Oh, duh! I'm sorry for missing the obvious reason - I guess you can tell that
I've never hosted web space before, huh??
I guess the answer is for the mailing lists to cell CD's of archives.
I'd gladly pony up for such a thing.
the webspace for the linux-audio-* archives is being
donated by kai
vehmanen, and my guess is his bandwidth too is limited.
that said, if someone does want to conduct some very special research
(such as indexing or statistical analyses of some kind that require
full-text archive access), something can be worked out with kai - just
drop him a note.
Nah, it was just a general note / question, not actually specific to the Linux
audio list.
as a sidenote, the LAU traffic totals at around 55
megs uncompressed so
far (since its beginning in 2001), LAD traffic since 2002 is around 45
megs, so the total is probably way over 100m.
regards,
jörn
That's all?? I actually thought it would be much more. Damn, then someone
_does_ need to sell a CD filled with various mailing list archives, then.
BTW with broadband accesss, I would gladly dl 100 megs, to escape the hell of
the online search engine. My error, of course, was in ignoring the sever's
bandwidth cost in providing such a tarball.
Larry Troxler