[R-390] Archives/addresses

[mikea]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 04:58:28PM -0500, Bill Hawkins wrote:
> Barry Hauser said,
> 
> "It's easy as pie.  Just go to the main (new) qth URL which is
> 
> http://mailman.qth.net/
> 
> Select the list you want (R-390, Boatanchors, etc.) from the drop
> down thing."
> 
> 
> Well, yes if you only want one or two digests because you know
> exactly what you want by number. The dates are all Jan 5, 2002.
> 
> I would like to copy all 999 of them to my disk so I can use a
> search program to find what I want. We didn't always talk about
> fixing things in radios, don't'cha know. Maybe 90% of the mail
> does not talk about things that would improve the radio's
> condition. And that's the way life is, and that's why we have
> search tools.
> 
> I tried FTP because WS_FTP can be told to save the contents of
> a directory (all 999 files) with one click. But mailman.qth.net
> does not allow an FTP connection on the standard port.
> 
> Has anybody solved this problem?

There is a tool called "wget" for sucking down an entire website
or subtree thereof. I know it compiles on *BSD, Linux, and other
*nix-like systems. IIRC, it or something like it is available 
for Winboxen and Macs.

-- 
Mike Andrews
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964