Date:         Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:41:50 -0700
Reply-To:     honemastert <honemastert@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         honemastert <honemastert@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Searching archives - 50 most discussed topics
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This would truly be a labor of love.. 
a useful one for the community 
definitely, but hard to pull off.

Also a moving target.. stuff is being 
added nearly every day, although the same
primary subjects come up.  

As a test, I  used the email interface to the
listserv to grab some of the archives and take 
a look.. Lots of data and stuff to go through.. 
uuugh  automation using the powers of UNIX 
text processing with a text based email client
(like gnus or vm in emacs for instance) could help,
but still a bunch of work either way you  slice it!    

Mind you, the email interface to the 
listserv is not exactly intuitive either, took me
a bit to figure it out as well.  

I've got about 90 emails sitting in my gmail
account that comprise the weekly archives
from dec 03 to about a month ago.  

It was more of an experiment to see if I could
access some of the raw data than anything..
Tis doable, but not something that can be
done quickly and or just tossed together without
really thinking about it.  

Like someone else said.. probably the best
thing that could be done is taking the really well 
written articles and coming up with posts to the 
BTDT site, although again, there are legal issues
with this due to the copyright notices on the 
gerry.vanagon.com website.

It's actually amazing that this resource is out
there for us all to use in it's current form.  

A testament to the vanagon community in general
I'd say!  a bunch of good, friendly and helpful folks
for sure!

 -tim

ps  when/if my job gets 'outsourced' to India/China
     I'll start working on this one ;-) 


90 syncro westy
mesa, az


** Zoltan wrote: **

>>  You are on the right track.  This project needs
>> a guy who would be compensated by us for each 
>> copy he makes and sends, who  will study the subjects
>> and makes the final decision on the best solution of
>> each promblem solving.  And he just puts it down under the right headline.
>> Kind of simple but now it is a big job to spend that much time.  Unless we
>> have a guy who is just off for his summer vacation.



** Larry Chase wrote: **

>> Does anyone know ... is it somehow possible to search the archives for the
>> top 25 or 50 most frequently discussed topics?

** Zoltan wrote: **

>>  I wish, we had the same summary results for most
>> of our problems put together the same way. I know, we have over fifty
>> general problems, but that would solve the constant asking for the same
>> questions....
>> best to have the best answer site to all the most asked questions.