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Date:         Mon, 6 Jun 2005 11:44:27 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: vanagon Digest - 5 Jun 2005 (#2005-459)
Comments: To: Michael Elliott <j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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Can't you just spider the site down? Seems I got involved in a project about a year or three ago and someone just spidered the total site down to three CDs.

Stan Wilder Engine Ceramics 214-352-4931 www.engineceramics.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Elliott" <j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:03 AM Subject: Re: vanagon Digest - 5 Jun 2005 (#2005-459)

> I also second the motion. Would be right handy to have along on a trip. > > -- > > Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott > 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus > 83.5 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") > KG6RCR > > > > On 6/6/2005 10:43 AM Higginbotham, David A. wrote: > > >I think that is a wonderful idea, especially since searching the > >archives via dial-up is SOOOOO slow. I have broadband at work but on the > >road or at home it is dial-up and usually I only get 34k anyway. > > > >David Higginbotham > >82 Westfalia > >Silk Hope, NC > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > > >Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 18:35:11 -0400 > >From: Jorge Osorio <josorio@ATLAS.KENNESAW.EDU> > >Subject: Vanagon Archives, the DVD Edition? > > > >I've been meaning to throw this idea in the ring for a while. given the > >fact that the archives are a regularly used source for maintaining and > >knowing "everything" there is to know about our beloved bricks, why not > >store it offline on a couple of DVDs? I reckon at 4GB capacity most of > >the content will fit in two DVDs. All we would have to figure out is how > >to include the front-end searching capability. You could then pull over > >in the middle of nowhere, flip open your laptop and voila! vanagon > >archives on demand. > > > >Just a though, what do y'all think? > > > >Jorge > > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.2 - Release Date: 6/4/2005 > >


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