Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: Archive-name Message-ID: <-JG5:IB@ggpc2.ferranti.com> Date: 26 Aug 90 03:52:43 GMT References: <1990Aug13.162617.25478@cbnews.att.com> <9008211455.AA02499@talos.pm.com> <18508@rpp386.cactus.org> <9ZE5:-G@ggpc2.ferranti.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 14 In article emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: > Peter, you could look at everything as it comes in, and make the > decision to archive or not archive on the fly. ... and duplicate the effort for all archive sites. And that still doesn't get all the sites synchronised. By the time the index comes around all the articles have already been archived. A lot of work to do something the program's authors know better how to do. > Apparently no one is going to do it for you, it's up to you. Ah, but you're wrong. People *are* doing it. More all the time. I've got mail from several people saying they're going to start doing it from now on and asking for suggestions. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com