[V8] RE: V8 Archives

[Jeff Goldberg]

Matt,

The original file v8.mbx is 41 MB. Give me an address and
I'll FTP'er right over.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Smith [mailto:smittypig24 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 11:42 AM
> To: 'Jeff Goldberg'
> Subject: RE: [V8] RE: V8 Archives
>
>
> Hi Jeff,
> 	I saw your generous offer to make copies of
> the archives. Could I
> get one too please? How big is the file? Could
> you put it up onto my ftp
> site? Let me know and I'll give you directions,
> or my mailing address.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
> Centreville, VA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: v8-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:v8-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of
> Jeff Goldberg
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 8:08 AM
> To: @V8 list; Scott Matus
> Subject: [V8] RE: V8 Archives
>
>
> Hi Scott,
>
>
>
> I'd be glad to make you a copy.  It really
> doesn't cost that much to make
> and mail one, so right now they're free.  Just
> email me with your mailing
> address or I will give you directions to my
> house.  I live outside
> Charlottesville in Afton, VA.
>
>
>
> I've had a chance to look at the archive and use
> it a little.  The file is
> in standard UNIX mailbox format.  The archive
> file I have contains 13,866
> emails that span from November 2000 to October 2003.
>
>
>
> I opened the file with PC-PINE, a freeware email
> reader for UNIX style .mbx
> mail files.  It opens the file quickly and sorts
> the file by the message
> headers.  PC-PINE has rudimentary search
> capabilities that I tried out a
> couple of times.  It works, just not very
> fast...but, then neither is my
> computer :).
>
>
>
> I also found a program that converts UNIX .mbx
> (RFC-822) files to ASCII
> comma delimited files.  I pulled the converted
> file into a Microsoft Access
> database...now it's searchable!  A full text
> search for multiple words,
> headlight and relay in the same email, returned
> 125 records in 29 seconds.
> Again, not real fast, but useable.  I'm still
> playing with the database.
> Access doesn't have a good *simple* means of
> searching, so I'll look at
> building a simple search screen.  I'd also like
> to make them searchable from
> the web.  I was thinking of converting the emails
> into HTML then using a
> search engine like Google.  Any other ideas?  How
> was the old searchable
> stuff archived?  Should we all load linux and learn grep?
>
>
>
>  Pine files and documentation are available via
> FTP or WWW:
>
>
>
>
> ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/
> or
>
> http://www.washington.edu/pine/
>
>
>
> Just follow the links for obtaining pine software.
>
>
>
> If anyone one has the archives from October 2000
> and earlier, I'd like to
> hear from you.
>
>
>
> Jeff
>
>  -----Original Message---
> From: Scott Matus [mailto:mr_scsi at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 5:41 AM
> To: jgoldberg at ntelos.net
> Subject: V8 Archives
>
>
>   Jeff -
>
>   You offered to rip copies of the V8 Archives.
> I would like to pay you for
> a copy.
>
>   What city are you in, maybe I can pick up.
>
>   Scott.
>   2 - '90 V8s
>
>
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