PaleoNet Digests???

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Paul:

I don't know quite what you mean by "digests or indices."  PaleoNet
archives all messages posted to it and to the specialty servers.  These are
available in a file that can be downloaded from the NHM-FTP site.  If
anyone is interested, I can provide instructions on how to do this.  There
was a request at the Seattle PaleoNet meeting to periodically drop the
PaleoNet archive into a database so that people could browse for past
postings by topic, author's name, etc.  This is also doable though at this
early stage I don't think we've reached a critical mass of messages that
really need to be saved for posterity as yet.  Does this answer your
question or did you have something else in mind?

Norm MacLeod


>Greetings.
>   Is the paleonet listserver able to produce digests or indecies?  I
>obtained the command set, but didn't see any digest command.  Paleonet seems
>to be a high volume server, so this would be very usefull (especialy for
>those at .com sites, small state schools, or in the third world who have to
>pay for message storage).
>Best Regards,
>-Paul
>----------------------
>Paul Morris
>Postdoctoral Fellow and Resident Research Associate
>Paleontological Research Institution
>1259 Trumansburg Rd.
>Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
>(607)273-6623



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