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"Mark K. Bilbo" |
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10 Aug 2004 07:04:15 PM |
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AA: Would anybody care about a newsgroup archive? |
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this has
been running a couple of days), I should have about half a million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1 gig of
space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about Oct 22,
2003.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover what
posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on what
the hell to *do with one?
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "Clayton....Ron Jeremy Without The Plus Size Equipment" |
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| Title: Re: Would anybody care about a newsgroup archive? |
10 Aug 2004 07:25:52 PM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:ZdKdnTeoiOvj_4TcRVn-gA@megapath.net...
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this has
been running a couple of days), I should have about half a million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1 gig of
space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about Oct 22,
2003.
Jeez...we're such a bunch of chatterboxes!
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover what
posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on what
the hell to *do with one?
Well....if it's better than Google then an archive is always useful. I've
saved a few discs worth of posts over the years....let me know if you want
me to send them to you.
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: Would anybody care about a newsgroup archive? |
10 Aug 2004 07:43:11 PM |
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:25:52 +1000 in episode
<41196734$0$8963$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> we saw our hero
"Clayton....Ron Jeremy Without The Plus Size Equipment"
<cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonyemail.com>:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:ZdKdnTeoiOvj_4TcRVn-gA@megapath.net...
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this
has been running a couple of days), I should have about half a million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1 gig
of space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about
Oct 22, 2003.
Jeez...we're such a bunch of chatterboxes!
I expire from my newsreader anything over a week old. It's sitting at
8,002 posts right now. That's an average of 1,143 per *day.
Busy place eh? <g>
In fact, if you exclude binaries groups, MS' little Netscan says we're the
fourth busiest in the entire alt.* heirarchy. Barely edged out this year
(so far) by alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (but only by 3,700 posts for the year,
not much). alt.politics.bush and alt.politics are in the lead.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover what
posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on what
the hell to *do with one?
Well....if it's better than Google then an archive is always useful. I've
saved a few discs worth of posts over the years....let me know if you want
me to send them to you.
That's what I'm trying to figure out. What and how to do with all this
stuff. <g>
And, yeah, the Google archives are, well, underwhelming.
You say "a few discs worth." How much are we talking about? Something that
could be shipped around on the Net or would it have to be mailed?
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "Claytonman...Claytonman....Does What Ever A Beer Can" |
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| Title: Re: Would anybody care about a newsgroup archive? |
11 Aug 2004 01:50:18 AM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:deSdnRJHh9kA9oTcRVn-pQ@megapath.net...
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:25:52 +1000 in episode
<41196734$0$8963$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> we saw our hero
"Clayton....Ron Jeremy Without The Plus Size Equipment"
<cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonyemail.com>:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:ZdKdnTeoiOvj_4TcRVn-gA@megapath.net...
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this
has been running a couple of days), I should have about half a million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1 gig
of space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about
Oct 22, 2003.
Jeez...we're such a bunch of chatterboxes!
I expire from my newsreader anything over a week old. It's sitting at
8,002 posts right now. That's an average of 1,143 per *day.
Busy place eh? <g>
In fact, if you exclude binaries groups, MS' little Netscan says we're the
fourth busiest in the entire alt.* heirarchy. Barely edged out this year
(so far) by alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (but only by 3,700 posts for the year,
not much). alt.politics.bush and alt.politics are in the lead.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover
what
posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on
what
the hell to *do with one?
Well....if it's better than Google then an archive is always useful.
I've
saved a few discs worth of posts over the years....let me know if you
want
me to send them to you.
That's what I'm trying to figure out. What and how to do with all this
stuff. <g>
And, yeah, the Google archives are, well, underwhelming.
You say "a few discs worth." How much are we talking about? Something that
could be shipped around on the Net or would it have to be mailed?
12 floppys worth....nothing a few zip files couldn't handle. Only things
that really caught my eye.
I've also got a few good blasphemous pictures that I posted on
alt.binaries.godless-heathens....WHICH NONE OF YOU EVER VISIT!!! *huff*
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| User: "Raptor514" |
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11 Aug 2004 02:43:13 AM |
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"Claytonman...Claytonman....Does What Ever A Beer Can"
<cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonyemail.com> wrote in message
news:4119c15b$0$11790$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:deSdnRJHh9kA9oTcRVn-pQ@megapath.net...
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:25:52 +1000 in episode
<41196734$0$8963$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> we saw our hero
"Clayton....Ron Jeremy Without The Plus Size Equipment"
<cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonyemail.com>:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:ZdKdnTeoiOvj_4TcRVn-gA@megapath.net...
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this
has been running a couple of days), I should have about half a
million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1
gig
of space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about
Oct 22, 2003.
Jeez...we're such a bunch of chatterboxes!
I expire from my newsreader anything over a week old. It's sitting at
8,002 posts right now. That's an average of 1,143 per *day.
Busy place eh? <g>
In fact, if you exclude binaries groups, MS' little Netscan says we're
the
fourth busiest in the entire alt.* heirarchy. Barely edged out this year
(so far) by alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (but only by 3,700 posts for the year,
not much). alt.politics.bush and alt.politics are in the lead.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover
what
posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on
what
the hell to *do with one?
Well....if it's better than Google then an archive is always useful.
I've
saved a few discs worth of posts over the years....let me know if you
want
me to send them to you.
That's what I'm trying to figure out. What and how to do with all this
stuff. <g>
And, yeah, the Google archives are, well, underwhelming.
You say "a few discs worth." How much are we talking about? Something
that
could be shipped around on the Net or would it have to be mailed?
12 floppys worth....nothing a few zip files couldn't handle. Only things
that really caught my eye.
I've also got a few good blasphemous pictures that I posted on
alt.binaries.godless-heathens....WHICH NONE OF YOU EVER VISIT!!! *huff*
Gee, I never knew. I'll crack that sucker open.
Raptor514
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| User: "Jez" |
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11 Aug 2004 09:19:56 AM |
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Raptor514 wrote:
"Claytonman...Claytonman....Does What Ever A Beer Can"
<cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonyemail.com> wrote in message
news:4119c15b$0$11790$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:deSdnRJHh9kA9oTcRVn-pQ@megapath.net...
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:25:52 +1000 in episode
<41196734$0$8963$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> we saw our hero
"Clayton....Ron Jeremy Without The Plus Size Equipment"
<cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonyemail.com>:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:ZdKdnTeoiOvj_4TcRVn-gA@megapath.net...
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this
has been running a couple of days), I should have about half a
million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1
gig
of space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about
Oct 22, 2003.
Jeez...we're such a bunch of chatterboxes!
I expire from my newsreader anything over a week old. It's sitting at
8,002 posts right now. That's an average of 1,143 per *day.
Busy place eh? <g>
In fact, if you exclude binaries groups, MS' little Netscan says we're
the
fourth busiest in the entire alt.* heirarchy. Barely edged out this year
(so far) by alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (but only by 3,700 posts for the year,
not much). alt.politics.bush and alt.politics are in the lead.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover
what
posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on
what
the hell to *do with one?
Well....if it's better than Google then an archive is always useful.
I've
saved a few discs worth of posts over the years....let me know if you
want
me to send them to you.
That's what I'm trying to figure out. What and how to do with all this
stuff. <g>
And, yeah, the Google archives are, well, underwhelming.
You say "a few discs worth." How much are we talking about? Something
that
could be shipped around on the Net or would it have to be mailed?
12 floppys worth....nothing a few zip files couldn't handle. Only things
that really caught my eye.
I've also got a few good blasphemous pictures that I posted on
alt.binaries.godless-heathens....WHICH NONE OF YOU EVER VISIT!!! *huff*
Gee, I never knew. I'll crack that sucker open.
Just took a look....my newserver doesn't have it...
:(
--
Jez
"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious,
of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society
highly values its normal man.It educates children to lose themselves
and to become absurd,and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed
perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years."
R.D. Laing
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| User: "Harry F. Leopold" |
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11 Aug 2004 10:32:17 AM |
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:19:56 -0500, Jez wrote
(in article <411a2b16$0$20248$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com>):
snip
I've also got a few good blasphemous pictures that I posted on
alt.binaries.godless-heathens....WHICH NONE OF YOU EVER VISIT!!! *huff*
Gee, I never knew. I'll crack that sucker open.
Just took a look....my newserver doesn't have it...
Mine doesn't either.
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
(remove gene to email)
"God hates figs."
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| User: "Raptor514" |
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11 Aug 2004 04:28:08 PM |
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"Harry F. Leopold" <hleopold@coxyx.net> wrote in message
news:0001HW.BD3FA6310086CEBEF02845B0@news.central.cox.net...
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:19:56 -0500, Jez wrote
(in article <411a2b16$0$20248$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com>):
snip
I've also got a few good blasphemous pictures that I posted on
alt.binaries.godless-heathens....WHICH NONE OF YOU EVER VISIT!!!
*huff*
Gee, I never knew. I'll crack that sucker open.
Just took a look....my newserver doesn't have it...
Mine doesn't either.
Nor does mine. . . wth?
Raptor514
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
(remove gene to email)
"God hates figs."
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| User: "stoney" |
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11 Aug 2004 11:11:41 AM |
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Claytonman...Claytonman....Does What Ever A Beer Can wrote:
[]
I've also got a few good blasphemous pictures that I posted on
alt.binaries.godless-heathens....WHICH NONE OF YOU EVER VISIT!!!
*huff*
Not available.
--
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never
stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and
neither do we.
-George Bush 2004/08/20040805
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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11 Aug 2004 11:28:52 AM |
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:11:41 -0700 in episode
<10hkh9t6h01o760@corp.supernews.com> we saw our hero stoney
<stoney@the.net>:
Claytonman...Claytonman....Does What Ever A Beer Can wrote:
[]
I've also got a few good blasphemous pictures that I posted on
alt.binaries.godless-heathens....WHICH NONE OF YOU EVER VISIT!!! *huff*
Not available.
Same here. And my current Usenet provider carries a *huge amount of stuff...
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "Mikhail" |
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12 Aug 2004 04:19:50 PM |
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Mark K. Bilbo wrote:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:11:41 -0700 in episode
<10hkh9t6h01o760@corp.supernews.com> we saw our hero stoney
<stoney@the.net>:
Claytonman...Claytonman....Does What Ever A Beer Can wrote:
[]
I've also got a few good blasphemous pictures that I posted on
alt.binaries.godless-heathens....WHICH NONE OF YOU EVER VISIT!!!
*huff*
Not available.
Same here. And my current Usenet provider carries a *huge amount of
stuff...
Same here.
--
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never
stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and
neither do we.
-George Bush 2004/08/20040805
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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11 Aug 2004 09:54:27 AM |
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:50:18 +1000 in episode
<4119c15b$0$11790$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> we saw our hero
"Claytonman...Claytonman....Does What Ever A Beer Can"
<cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonyemail.com>:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:deSdnRJHh9kA9oTcRVn-pQ@megapath.net...
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:25:52 +1000 in episode
<41196734$0$8963$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> we saw our hero
"Clayton....Ron Jeremy Without The Plus Size Equipment"
<cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonyemail.com>:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:ZdKdnTeoiOvj_4TcRVn-gA@megapath.net...
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this
has been running a couple of days), I should have about half a
million alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking
about 2.1 gig of space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch
back to about Oct 22, 2003.
Jeez...we're such a bunch of chatterboxes!
I expire from my newsreader anything over a week old. It's sitting at
8,002 posts right now. That's an average of 1,143 per *day.
Busy place eh? <g>
In fact, if you exclude binaries groups, MS' little Netscan says we're
the fourth busiest in the entire alt.* heirarchy. Barely edged out this
year (so far) by alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (but only by 3,700 posts for the
year, not much). alt.politics.bush and alt.politics are in the lead.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover
what
posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on
what
the hell to *do with one?
Well....if it's better than Google then an archive is always useful.
I've
saved a few discs worth of posts over the years....let me know if you
want
me to send them to you.
That's what I'm trying to figure out. What and how to do with all this
stuff. <g>
And, yeah, the Google archives are, well, underwhelming.
You say "a few discs worth." How much are we talking about? Something
that could be shipped around on the Net or would it have to be mailed?
12 floppys worth....nothing a few zip files couldn't handle. Only things
that really caught my eye.
Shoot, if you feel like it, just mail that to the "webmaster" address at
alt-atheism dot org. That's, what, less than 20M worth. No problem on this
end. Or are you on dial up? *Uploading it on dial up would be a PITA.
I've also got a few good blasphemous pictures that I posted on
alt.binaries.godless-heathens....WHICH NONE OF YOU EVER VISIT!!! *huff*
Um... erm... I'm the one that didn't post last time don't you remember?
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: AA: Would anybody care about a newsgroup archive? |
11 Aug 2004 11:05:52 AM |
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Mark K. Bilbo wrote:
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this
has been running a couple of days), I should have about half a million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1 gig
of space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about
Oct 22, 2003.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover
what posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on
what the hell to *do with one?
Neat idea. It could be utilized to recover old data that's needed
again.
--
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never
stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and
neither do we.
-George Bush 2004/08/20040805
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| User: "Uncle Dollar Bill" |
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11 Aug 2004 08:34:19 PM |
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:04:15 -0500 in alt.atheism, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> defied the status quo and scrawled upon the toilet
stall:
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this has
been running a couple of days), I should have about half a million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1 gig of
space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about Oct 22,
2003.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover what
posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on what
the hell to *do with one?
I'd care. In fact, I've often contemplated doing such a thing myself. Never
got around to it, but it's still an interesting idea.
--
L8r,
Uncle Dollar Bill
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| User: "raven1" |
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| Title: Re: AA: Would anybody care about a newsgroup archive? |
10 Aug 2004 11:59:27 PM |
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:04:15 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this has
been running a couple of days), I should have about half a million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1 gig of
space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about Oct 22,
2003.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover what
posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on what
the hell to *do with one?
*Cough*
"Google"
*Cough*
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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11 Aug 2004 09:50:38 AM |
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:59:27 +0000 in episode
<b5ajh0lkrj4esfq7e3klj4bfqot93a52b9@4ax.com> we saw our hero raven1
<quoththeraven@nevermore.com>:
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:04:15 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this has
been running a couple of days), I should have about half a million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1 gig of
space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about Oct
22, 2003.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover what
posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on what
the hell to *do with one?
*Cough*
"Google"
*Cough*
One big question about Google is how long will they bother with Usenet at
all? You seen their "next generation" groups thing? You can find the
Usenet groups. But they're not very prominent.
Usenet's never been a high profit kind of thing for anybody. Take a look
at the consolidation that happened among providers. We've ended up with
relatively few of them. Usenet's not "dying" as some folks like to
announce periodically but it's also not a place you're going to make Big
Bucks. So what happens if Google someday says "know what, hell with it"
and dumps their archive to make room for something that makes more money?
There are other things. Like you can't search headers in Google. Except
for the usual From and Subject. You certainly couldn't do any kind of
Bayesian analysis on posts.
But, anyway, I'm doing this for my own reasons. In part because I'm
playing with textual analysis (for which I need a big, big corpus of real
world text... what better source that Usenet... it even includes lots of
silly babble and grammatically awful material <G>).
And I'm also learning Perl. Because of its text manipulation ability. So
if anybody came up with something like "It'd be really cool if we could X"
it might something worth working on...
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Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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12 Aug 2004 04:17:41 PM |
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raven1 wrote:
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:04:15 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this
has been running a couple of days), I should have about half a million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1 gig
of space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about
Oct 22, 2003.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover
what posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on
what the hell to *do with one?
*Cough*
"Google"
*Cough*
Yes, I'm fully aware of google.
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Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never
stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and
neither do we.
-George Bush 2004/08/20040805
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| User: "Mark Richardson" |
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10 Aug 2004 08:20:41 PM |
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:04:15 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this has
been running a couple of days), I should have about half a million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1 gig of
space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about Oct 22,
2003.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover what
posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on what
the hell to *do with one?
Google is pretty good.
Are you achieving everything? Including spam forgeries lame trolls
etc?
Or are you archiving just the "interesting" threads?
Mark
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Mark Richardson mDOTrichardsonATutasDOTeduDOTau
Member of S.M.A.S.H.
(Sarcastic Middle aged Atheists with a Sense of Humour)
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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10 Aug 2004 08:48:19 PM |
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 01:20:41 +0000 in episode
<6tsih09gjfkhkqp4auluf0vcur31ekihd1@4ax.com> we saw our hero Mark
Richardson <mark.richardson@die.spammers.die>:
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:04:15 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this has
been running a couple of days), I should have about half a million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1 gig of
space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about Oct
22, 2003.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover what
posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on what
the hell to *do with one?
Google is pretty good.
Are you achieving everything? Including spam forgeries lame trolls etc?
Or are you archiving just the "interesting" threads?
Right now, I'm pulling everything. I, well, don't plan on spending the
time it'd take to edit a half million posts. <g>
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "W. Syme" |
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10 Aug 2004 07:30:15 PM |
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:04:15 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this has
been running a couple of days), I should have about half a million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1 gig of
space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about Oct 22,
2003.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover what
posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on what
the hell to *do with one?
Unrelated, but it would be nice if someone with a AQOTM masterlist
could past a good one every day.
--
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
W. Syme (pseudonym), European, non-native English speaker, "soft" atheist.
Email will not be read.
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| User: "Claytonman...Claytonman....Does What Ever A Beer Can" |
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| Title: Re: AA: Would anybody care about a newsgroup archive? |
11 Aug 2004 01:45:34 AM |
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"W. Syme" <Winston.Syme.superstitions@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
news:73qih0ta7ru9dcjj5mr630ldldic0hcpib@4ax.com...
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:04:15 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this has
been running a couple of days), I should have about half a million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1 gig of
space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about Oct
22,
2003.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover what
posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on what
the hell to *do with one?
Unrelated, but it would be nice if someone with a AQOTM masterlist
could past a good one every day.
Yes....and not just the winners...all the nominees too!
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| User: "Claytonman...Claytonman....Does What Ever A Beer Can" |
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11 Aug 2004 01:47:21 AM |
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"W. Syme" <Winston.Syme.superstitions@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
news:73qih0ta7ru9dcjj5mr630ldldic0hcpib@4ax.com...
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:04:15 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this has
been running a couple of days), I should have about half a million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1 gig of
space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about Oct
22,
2003.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover what
posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on what
the hell to *do with one?
Unrelated, but it would be nice if someone with a AQOTM masterlist
could past a good one every day.
(I'll try that again)
Yes...and not just the winners...all the nominated quotes over the years
too... and maybe who made the quotes.
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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10 Aug 2004 07:51:28 PM |
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:30:15 +0200 in episode
<73qih0ta7ru9dcjj5mr630ldldic0hcpib@4ax.com> we saw our hero W. Syme
<Winston.Syme.superstitions@fastmail.fm>:
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:04:15 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this has
been running a couple of days), I should have about half a million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1 gig of
space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about Oct
22, 2003.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover what
posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on what
the hell to *do with one?
Unrelated, but it would be nice if someone with a AQOTM masterlist could
past a good one every day.
You know I was thinking of doing a "fortune cookie" kind of thing with our
QOTMS. Haven't done it just yet (still trying to wrap my head around the
Perl DBI thing). And spent some time trying to find 2001. We're missing
everything from that year. I dug up pretty much everything that was done
(we didn't have them at all from about November 2001 to March 2002).
I was thinking of doing it on the website. Posting them wouldn't be
difficult though. Not sure we have enough for one a day. I'd have to go
look...
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "Vic Sagerquist" |
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| Title: Re: AA: Would anybody care about a newsgroup archive? |
10 Aug 2004 07:37:54 PM |
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One day in alt.atheism, Also Sprach Mark K. Bilbo:
After about another 80,000 posts are processed (talk about slow, this
has been running a couple of days), I should have about half a million
alt.atheism posts on my hard drive (and it's only taking about 2.1 gig
of space... well, it's just text). They look to stretch back to about
Oct 22, 2003.
After that, I'll be tracking the ng. And looking at ways to recover
what posts can be recovered as far back as I can go.
(Why? Why the hell not? Besides, I'm learning Perl. It's fun. <g>)
Anywho...
Would anybody here care we have an archive? Or have any thoughts on
what the hell to *do with one?
Seems to me the Google archive is enough, although a "Classic Threads"
archive would be fun.
--
Vic Sagerquist
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
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The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that
intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree?
Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. "You eat this apple, you're going to
be as smart as God. We can't have that."
[Frank Zappa]
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