Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 13:24:56 +0200
From: Javier Bardal Prieto <u0204956 AT golum DOT inforg DOT uniovi DOT es>
Subject: Re: Re: Downloadable Mail Archives
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Message-id: <199807071124.NAA15275@golum.inforg.uniovi.es>
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Hans wrote:

>   The primary reason is probably their sheer size. As DJ's link to the
>   Internet is rather narrow (a modem line), he probably cannot seriously
>   offer download of this large database (I used to collect the DJGPP
>   mailing list myself before it ever became a newsgroup, and that
>   amounted to several megabytes of compressed stuff per year) from his
>   server.

Hi Hans,
   I don't say that these archives must be in the djgpp page, they could be
   in the djgpp distribution files, in the directory v2misc, or in a new
   directory v2mail. The mail archives usually can be compressed in a
   factor or 4-5, the stuff of a month is around 3 Mb in size, so compressed
   it will be 700 Kb more or less, 700*12=8400 Kb per year, i think it's not
   so much disk space, and this is a very very very good and useful material.
   I would like Dj says what he thinks about this.

  Javier Bardal Prieto             e-mail: u0204956 AT golum DOT inforg DOT uniovi DOT es