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Subject: Re: CCC Archive Suggestion

Author: Tim Mirabile

Date: 12:23:48 08/13/99

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On August 10, 1999 at 01:47:40, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>How about using SGML or XML? e.g.
>
><YEAR 1999>
><MONTH January>
><DATE 16>
><MESSAGE 933503>
><AUTHOR "Dave Gomboc">
><SUBJECT "crafty 84.3">
>blah blah
>whatever I ranted about :-)
></MESSAGE>
><MESSAGE 933504>
><AUTHOR "Someone else">
><SUBJECT "blah">
>blah blah
></MESSAGE>
></DATE>
><DATE 17>
>you get the idea.
>
>One big text file is perhaps a little unwieldy :-), but maybe done by month this
>would work out well.  I'm not sure how difficult this would be to do, but I
>imagine that a perl script could slam through the messages pretty quickly.

I would do one file for each day.  That would give a pretty good size.

>The tags would be a big help to anyone who wants to post-process the messages
>later for their own needs.

Of course, archiving your message this way would cause problems. :)



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