Mailing List Archive(s)

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at cs.otago.ac.nz
Wed Jul 10 00:06:44 UTC 2002


I've got a PhD student working on Information Retrieval.
He has an IR engine which he's pretty pleased with, and
I thought it would be neat to drop the Squeak mailing list
archives into it and see what happens.

Question 1: what are the authoritative sites for the Squeak
mailing list archives?  With a Google search, I've found what
look like three.

Question 2: can I just FTP the lot with perhaps a small script
rather than ruining my wrists with clicky-clicky?

Question 3: roughly how large _are_ the archives?
I've estimated 2-3kB per message from a sample, 10-40 messages
per day, call it 1/2 to 3 1/2 MB per month.  So my very rough
estimate is 40 to 300MB, and the student (who has worked in the
industry) calls 300 MB "small".

Question 4: would there be any interest in having the mailing
list archives accessible through an Information Retrieval engine?




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