[pure-silver] Re: Archives?

Peter... where do you stand w.r.t. putting the data from the archives into 
columns?

As I meant to say earlier... if I can get the data in columns I can create a 
database program that will will have the powerful and simple to learn and use 
FileMaker database engine as it's backbone. I can script buttons to search for 
popular discussion topics such as TF4, Pyro, Alternative Process, in addition 
to a general find function that will allow users to find any word in any field 
of the database...

No one will have to own a copy of FM to run this application I can make it run 
stand-alone... Mac or PC.

Once the data is in columns there is almost nothing I can't do... what's most 
important, in my opinion is separating the replies from the quoted text... 
since that's the part that's most unwieldy in terms of readability and the 
biggest hindrance to usability.

Did I understand you to say that you could create an application that would 
parse the data to columns?

Best,

Matt...

On Tuesday, March 29, 2005, at 07:43PM, Peter Badcock <tallowood@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

>> I have put the archive of the list supported by Tim Daneliuk
>> <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> distributed by Edson Brandi <ebrandi.home@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> here for 1 week.
>> http://people.stu.ca/~smoss/stuff/
>
>Thanks for posting this Stephen.  I have downloaded it, and
>uncompressed all 42MB of it.  Uncompressed, it takes up about 433MB on
>my HDD!!  It is missing posts prior to October 2000 (according to the
>index at http://tinyurl.com/6mwxr ), but I will deal with that later.
>
>I think Tim had used Namazu to index everything.  As it stands, I need
>to decide on both a useful solution for folks to search online coupled
>with the path of least resistance for me.  My two options are
>i) investigate using Namazu on the archived data you posted in order
>to access and/or re-index the data,
>ii) alternatively I could wait to see what Matthew Gaylen has for me
>w.r.t. the raw text data.
>
>regards
>Peter Badcock
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