X-Message-Number: 3734 From: (Kevin Q Brown +1 201 386 7344) Date: 23 Jan 95 19:56:00 -0500 Subject: Admin: Another CryoNet Archive Site? I have appended below a proposal that I just received for a free, web-accessible archive site for this and other mailing lists plus also the USENET news groups. Does this sound like a good idea? Any other comments? Thanks. Kevin Q. Brown FYI: The CryoNet archives total over 4,000 files and almost 20 MBytes, dating back to July 1988. (Only a few megabytes of messages are stored at cryonet.org, though, because it would cost too much to store all the messages there. The complete archive is at the old mailing list address.) -- > From: (Jack M. Zoken) > Subject: Request for feedback on new internet service > To: , (Jack M. Zoken) > Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 15:41:33 -0800 (PST) I would greatly appreciate your feedback on a service that I intend to provide with the help of Nasa Ames. I believe that the service will be of great benefit to email list subscribers, people who read news and the Internet community at large. As you know, many email lists and newsgroups are not archived and even those that are archived are scattered across thousands of sites. Our service will provide a comprehensive, centralized, web accessible archive of USENET and email-list history. We intend to seed the service with as many existing archives as possible and then track daily all newsgroups and some email lists. Users will be able to search the archives by conversational thread, subject, keyword, date, organization as well as the full text of all messages. Because all the information will be centralized and our news server will be built on a relational database, it will offer better indexing capabilities, speed and ease-of-use than existing systems. We intend to offer the service free of charge to the Internet community, underwritten by corporate sponsorships. I have attached a questionaire (only being distributed to a small number of "email list contacts" so your response is very important) that will help us design the service to be of most benefit. Thanks in advance for your help. -Jack Zoken --------------------------- LIST MODERATOR QUESTIONAIRE We expect this service to be very popular and thus impose a heavy load on our system. To help assess the system requirements (storage, CPU, network bandwidth), we would appreciate your answers to the following questions: 1. We realize that not all list moderators will want us to archive their lists and we would respect their wishes. Would your permit your email list(s) to be archived on a regular basis? 2. When was your mailing list created? 3. Do you maintain an existing archive(s)? If so, what time periods and how large is it? 4. Is your email list archive posted as a digest to a newsgroup? 5. On a scale of 1-5 (1=little/no value, 5=extremely valuable), please assess the value of the service. For you: ______ For your members: _____ For the internet community: _____ 6. We would welcome any comments or suggestions that you may have about the service. -- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3734