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| DATE | 2007-11-16 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Website Updates
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:24:40PM -0500, Ron Guerin wrote:
> Kevin Mark wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 06:32:01PM -0500, Ruben Safir wrote:
> >> I'm busy rewriting a lot of the functionality of the NYLXS and the Freeom-IT
> >> websites. It's been a bit longer to do that I thought, much because of the
> >> first step is parsing all the old mail boxes I have and pulling out all the
> >> HANGOUT mailings to store in a database. This is well over 700,000 lines of
> >> data (thanks for the binaries in the mail guys!).
> >>
> >> This makes testing go slower than I'd like and the large sample is important
> >> for the purpose of shaking out my regex routines on the From lines in the
> >> mboxes.
> > Whats the problem with parsing email from mail boxes into a database?
>
> I can think of one. Speaking from pain of experience, you need to
> maintain the same level of privacy that your posters expected when they
> posted to the list. That's possibly going to be a problem when the
> expectations on this list in regard to an archive were pretty restrictive.
>
> Oh! Make that two. You need to honor the "X-No-Archive: yes" headers
> unless you had a stated policy about not honoring it. We no longer
> honor it on nylug-talk, and I know we lost one fairly active list member
> who left after we announced that.
>
> - Ron
The size of the files is enough. These are being flucked from my personal
mail archive since 1998. These files are enormous.
Ruben
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