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From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti)
Subject: Re: Mailing Lists
In-Reply-To: waugh@rtpnet05.rtp.dg.com's message of 10 Apr 91 12:51:40 GMT
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1991 21:44:16 GMT

In article <1991Apr10.125140.7442@dg-rtp.dg.com> waugh@rtpnet05.rtp.dg.com (Matthew Waugh) writes:

   2. What's the "correct" format for mailing list archives made available
      by anonymous ftp? Should it be one message per file, or one big
      file or something else? Whatever the consensus is I'd appreciate
      pointers to software for UNIX that handles that situation.

Depends on the volume of the list.  For many lists, one file per month
in tar format, with an author/subject index in a separate file, would
be more than enough.  Other lists might be better to be one file per
year.

On a more experimental note you could look at the stuff on
	ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/indexed-archives/
which makes provisions for putting a full-text index onto each month's
collection.  

--Ed