emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (10/30/90)
Archive-name: administrivia/30-Oct-90 Original-posting-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu Original-subject: administrivia Archive-site: cs.toronto.edu [128.100.3.2] Archive-directory: /comp.archives Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) comp.archives will see only limited activity for the coming two weeks to accomodate a job change and some time off for the moderator. When it comes back there will be slightly reduced coverage of low-yield newsgroups. this group has been running at about 10 articles a day all year. I think that's a suitable target; even if there were more than 10 new cool packages that appeared on the same day, you wouldn't have the disk space or network bandwidth to get them all at once. archives of this newsgroup are kept at cs.toronto.edu in /comp.archives. they are compressed, one file per month. Mark Moraes, moraes@cs.toronto.edu, is responsible for this (thanks Mark). If you want to put up this collection via FTP, let me know, I'll include you in the first regular monthly posting. The newsgroup should be archivable with the "rkive" software, but be aware that the Archive-name: header doesn't really give you a suitable filename for dropping the article into. There are just too many files, and your directories will blow up to enormous sizes. There is no automated way of searching through comp.archives old postings. This would be a nice thing to have, either as an interactive service or a batched e-mail thing. Unfortunately things which are simply "nice things to have" rarely happen at the speed that they deserve. Ideas (and working code) are welcomed. Better yet, pick up the archives from toronto and run the service yourself. Some time in mid-November I will be resuming activity from my new address; the moderator aliases will be fixed up between now and then to whatever it ends up being. In the interim, if you have some software to announce which you'd like to see in comp.archives, send me mail with the text of the announcement and note which group(s) it was posted to. Or if you see something which you think should have gone to comp.archives, carefully preserve all of the headers and mail it to me. Two weeks should be ca. 140 potential postings to comp.archives, I don't think there will actually be that many, but who knows. --Ed Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept <emv@math.lsa.umich.edu> moderator, comp.archives after 1 November: <emv@ox.com>