Richard,

Perhaps this link

http://macos.tuwien.ac.at:9009/Server.home

could be of interest to you: joining forces? Follow the link at the bottom.

-- Christian

Christian Eitner
Sub-Omnipotent/SoftwareEngineer

Zitiere "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz>:

> 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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