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: Jim Witte <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 03:09:02 -0500
I pulled down all of cocoa-dev last night. It's 68387 files, 300MB
uncompressed, 44MB tarballed.
If it didn't violate the terms of usage, one could tarball the
archives and spread them via bittorrent/gnutella. It would save Apple
a ton of bandwidth and would spread the burden of hosting such
monsters across more than a few people. However, I like being
subscribed to the list and don't want to have that status changed
(sigh).
For that matter, why does Apple *care* if people can download their
development archives? They are *public* archives after all.. Runtime
Revolution (www.runrev.com) has a couple of mailing lists, and while
I'm not sure if they have a search engine, they do allow you to
download the archives - in two forms: by month (only about 60KB
zipped), or as one gigantic mbox file (which is currently about 300MB
and growing all the time..)
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..
(<Obligatory plug>: Yes, the Newton IS still alive and kicking, Apple,
along with it's codec MP3 player, ATA support - including IBM
microdrive, alpha bluetooth support, IrDA support, web *hosting*, and
direct Quickdraw screensavers courtesy of moi [not yet released].. Oh,
yeah, and the best printed recognizer on the planet (too bad the
InkWell code improvements will never be ported back to the
StrongARM..), and user integration that's years ahead of anything
else.. Including MacOSX. Come to the Worldwide Newton Conference in
Paris right after AppleExpo in Paris. See
http://wwnc.newtontalk.net/)
Jim Witte
email@hidden
Indiana University CS
--
A vote for Nader is a vote for George Bush.
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