How 'bout a server-side search? (j/k)
Of course you'd wanna be running Unix or Linux if you were gonna... (take that
Ken, I'm being l'enfant provocateur ;) )
Ken wrote:
> My guess would be over 100 megs and this is the text only messages.
> The server currently is allocated around 700 megs and is well over
> half full now. I see the real problem here as one of content. While
> there are many messages with valuable content there is also quite
> a bit-o-junk too. It would be a monumental task sifting through the
> individual messages trying to find those that someone might find
> useful and those that would serve no purpose being repeated.
> Personally I would attack this from a different angle. Instead of
> trying to mirror the contents of this news server at a private web
> site I would suggest you comb through the scene-files and utilities
> groups and suck out the resource related content (with permission
> of the original poster of course). There are quite few resources
> that those who don't frequent these news groups are missing.
> Doing this would in all likelihood cause no problems with the
> news admin what so ever.
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