Re: virus: Archives

Dan Plante (dplante@home.com)
Thu, 14 May 1998 23:13:09 -0700


At 11:15 PM 5/13/98 +0100, red_mist wrote:
>>
>>No. As I said, it would be done locally, with "GREP" or AWK", after
>>downloading
>>the archives. This has nothing to do with CGI scripts or remote servers.
>Tell me if I'm not understanding you here but I think what you mean is
>that everyone downloads the whole archives and uses grep on their own
>system.

(snip)

Nowhere in my previous posts did I even /imply/ that this was a group
effort. Even if you /could/ coordinate the output of multiple passes
from different locations, why the hell would you want to? It would take
me about ten minutes to download the archives, and another ten to run
it through the Unix c-shell /script/, which again, as I said before,
would use more than just the grep command.

>>As for a rating scheme, if I understand what you mean by
>>it, that /would/ require direct perusal. But as I stated in a previous post,
>>that wasn't my goal. Am I being obtuse?

>It would be good to have both if we were to design something like that

Something like what? I had already stated that collating by real subject
matter (as opposed to the subject header line, which is unreliable) was
my only goal. What did you think I was talking about?

Please, exercise more care and attention before responding to my posts.
Consider this thread dead, Fred.

Dan