----- Original Message -----
From: "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 7:45 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Fw: non-ASCII lists

> Sorry - I was "out of pocket" on a project for a client for the last
> few days, and couldn't review new msg until now.
>

np

> The archive on the CD is in html - each message appears as the page
> one sees when one reads on-line messages. Images are in the format
> used when they were downloaded to the photos or attached to the email
> messages.
>

OK. Might be hard to convert this to mbox format which is one of two
options they require for importing old messages. The other is a tar file.
We can just create it w/o the old messages and if we figure out a way, they
can be imported later.

> I doubt you will get a following on a usenet group, if usenet is where
> you asked for a new group. The name is too hard to promote and have
> remembered or be found by potentially interested participants. Why
> not just alt.boundarypoint or something simple, for which no
> permission is needed?

The reason for using gmane is Gmane is the gateway from mail to news and
visa versa. It would allow people to post as usual, without thinking about
the fact that their messages are being relayed to a ng and archived for
searching, should we have trouble with Yahoo!'s search engine, etc.
Besides, Lars indicated that the high volume we experience is not going to
be a problem (as long as messages don't exceed 1 MB).

I will email them and say to create it without importing the old messages.

BTW, how many messages did you download, and did you do them individually,
or did you use a script to automatically download them?

>
> Regards
>
> LN
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "John Seeliger" <jseelige@a...>
> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Seeliger" <jseelige@a...>
> > To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 2:56 PM
> > Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Fw: non-ASCII lists
> >
> >
> > > OK, I did it. I created gmane.culture.geo.boundarypoint (or at least
> > > submitted a request to create it). I sent this message in the
> comments:
> > >
> > > <<Not sure if the description above is too long. If so, you may
> trim it.
> > >
> > > The others on the list seem to approve of creating this newsgroup.
> As I
> > > noted earlier, there is a significant archive of messages. Most I
> do not
> > > have myself, as I have only been a member since May 2002 and the group
> > dates
> > > to June 2000. I will see if others have a more complete archive.
> If it
> > is
> > > easier to import an archive before any new messages are added to the
> > group,
> > > you may want to wait until after we send the archive to create the
> group,
> > > unless this is done automatically.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -John Seeliger>>
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a nearly complete archive to import? Len, what
> format is
> > > the data on that CD?
> >
> > OK, since no one has replied, I guess no one has a significant number of
> > messages still on their computer, so I suppose we should just ask
> them to
> > create the group as is. Unless someone says otherwise soon, I will
> email
> > them and tell them to go ahead and create it.
>
>
>
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