Re: [MiNT] Searching mintlist

[Lonny Pursell <atari@bright.net>]

on 5/27/2005 6:57 AM, Maurits van de Kamp wrote:

>> Keeping the whole mintlist archive as an offline copy is not an
>> option for me. Apart from keeping all these files on my hard disk, my
>> opinion is that WWW should be the information source. (Anywhere,
>> anytime accessible)
> 
> Well, searching through the newsgroup mirror would be a good way
> ( http://groups.google.nl/group/muc.lists.mint ) but the mirroring seems to
> have stopped in 2003, all I see after that is political propaganda posted
> (randomly) to the newsgroup itself.
> 
> The newsgroup mirroring wasn't bad (because of Google's search features), just
> as long as the email addresses are filtered out (which they weren't). Maybe
> we could arrange this again?

That is why all my posts contain the x-no-archive tag, even e-mail.  I spent
a considerable amount of time nuking about 400+ posts from the google
archive in order to get the spam under control.  It has helped a lot.

-- 
Lonny Pursell    http://www.bright.net/~gfabasic/