Re: OT? Why are list archive search results so lame?
Re: OT? Why are list archive search results so lame?
- Subject: Re: OT? Why are list archive search results so lame?
- From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 20:29:44 +1000
Why Apple doesn't do this is beyond me - that's why I just keep a
local copy of *everything* that comes in over this list, the
student-dev list, and the applescript-dev list ('sosume' ;-). They
get really damn big (cocoa dev is at 2871 messages, student-dev is
109, applescript is at 454, and my Newtontalk archive is a whopping
5000 or so messages big. Yeah, I'll probably never read any of those,
but my disk is big, and when it fills up, I'll either delete some
stuff, or just get a bigger one, or both..
Well, if we're going to get into a virtual pissing contents over this,
I have nearly 100,000 messages from Apple mailing lists, taking up half
a gig, mirrored on two computers. :P
And all for the same reason as you - the web archives are just so damn
crap it's worth wasting the space just to save time and frustration.
Although the recent habit of Apple's list server automagically
unsubscribing me is making both routes equally painful.*
Wade Tregaskis (aim: wadetregaskis)
-- Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
* = FWIW, this isn't entirely Apple's fault... the incompetent mail
server my uni uses seems to return mailbox not found errors if it gets
too busy... an *extremely* effective way of reducing congestion. It's
also developed by country high school kids, apparently, if it weren't a
joke enough already.
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