[R-390] EMail List Forum stay at QTH.net or move to Groups.io

[Bill]

Why isn't image or picture ability activated on this list?

It's only a setting change.

Bill W2CQ


On 11/11/2022 4:24 AM, Larry H wrote:
> Thanks Jerry, good info.
>
> In order to estimate the size of the file the complete R-390 list archive
> would be, I calculated the approximate size of the Pearls files made by Wei
> Li for our website. It's about 51 MB uncompressed and that is about 3/4 of
> the total posts in the archive, so the size of the archives would be about
> 68 MB.
>
> Here's how I obtain most of the information from the R-390 Email Reflector
> Forum archives. This is documented in my document on our
> website called: R-390x Newbie Support Information.  I use 2 methods to do
> so:
> 1. The HHI Email Reflector Search Tool accessed with the internet link:
> http://www.w9wze.net/ReflectorSearch/SearchReflectorForm.php .
>
> Because it searches all of the archive, it takes a couple minutes to
> provide the list. To see the item of interest from the list, just click on
> the highlighted link. You can search the titles and/or authors with 1 or 2
> keywords specifying AND or OR operators.
>
> 2. The built-in method in the 'Mailman' tool that provides the function for
> our Email Reflector Forum. Here's how I access the R-390 list of the
> archived entries from an internet window:
> http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/r-390/ . If you want to display
> information for a different product group, just replace the 'r-390' with
> it's name, such as: Collins, Hammarlund, National, Hallicrafters, Heathkit,
> Eico, QRP, etc. It displays a table of entries for each month. You can
> display the month's forum entries in a list sorted by: thread, subject,
> author or date (by clicking on those keywords). From that 2nd list you can
> display a desired post entry.
>
> Being able to search the content of the posts would be very helpful
> because many times the title is not indicative of the content.  This
> happens once in a while for a few different good reasons.
>
> I like the idea of using the Groups.IO search tools, but the question is
> what to do about searching the existing archive.  I  really don't relish
> the idea of  keeping the archive on my disk and using yet another search
> tool (unless it comes with Kielbasa) as a solution.  I like the results of
> the HHI tool, but it does not search content.
>
> Ideas anyone?
>
> Regards, Larry
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 7:30 AM <jsternmd at att.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Larry,
>>
>> Migrating the old archive to Groups.IO is not feasible as I understand.
>> The
>> Collins Collector Group Reflector list made this migration and have not
>> been
>> able to transfer their old Reflector archive which appears quite similar to
>> the qth.net mail list format.  I can concatenate all the monthly R-390
>> archives into 1 large text file.  There are many free logical text search
>> tools available but not sure if they would remain "free" for use on a
>> public
>> website.  Also bear in mind that the archives contain lots of content that
>> have little historical value.  Searching would still take some time, for
>> example if I wanted to find a thread on PTO restoration, it would take a
>> modest effort to find a relevant 'hit' and then to copy the subject title
>> and do a secondary search on that specific thread title.  It's a bit clunky
>> but when you need to find valuable old advice it can work well.   I did
>> this
>> with the old collections (pre-digital print) of the Collins Signal, where I
>> used OCR and then put them all into a large single file.  I use Copernic, a
>> personal free search tool then to find relevant subject matter.  I also
>> started doing this with the old 73 Magazine issues where I used Adobe
>> Acrobat to perform OCR to render searchable text.  Where there's will
>> there's a way.
>>
>> Jerry NY2KW
>>
>>
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