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20 Apr 2002
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text archives and posting via email
My girfriend and I will be amongst the lucky fews carrying a mini laptop and a sat-phone for web access, but other people who experienced internet cafes in Africa sharing a single 28K line for 12 machines might be interested too...
It would be nice to have a weekly text-only archive of all the messages posted during the last 7 days accessible through FTP. This way we could launch a single request, download the file, close the connection and read the messages at our own pace.
Example: ftp://www.horizonsunlimited.com/ubb/...2002_04_20.txt
Accessorily, an interface could also allow us to download an archive containing all the threads that have been modified within a particular forum during the past week.
Example: ftp://www.horizonsunlimited.com/ubb/...2002_04_20.txt
Finally, it would be nice to be able to post a message by email.
Example: mailto://sahara_travel_forum@ www.horizonsunlimited.com?subject=mysubject:myuser name:mypassword
This system would allow travellers on the road a fast and cheap way to post and keep track of the messages on the bulletin board.
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Pierre Saslawsky
http://www.geocities.com/skypie999/bikes/
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24 Apr 2002
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HU Founder
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Join Date: Dec 1997
Location: BC Canada
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Pierre,
Good ideas!
BUT - there's always a but - that would require serious hacking of the Perl code that runs the HUBB, and quite frankly we have neither the time nor the skills to do it.
BUT + we are considering a change to a different BB software, and will keep in mind your comments, as they would indeed be good.
For now, IF we can find a good coder with free/very cheap time on his hands (if that isn't an oxymoron) we might be able to do something simpler - in addition to the "Click Here To View Today's Active Topics (all public forums)" perhaps we could do a "this weeks topics" to speed things up a little. We are averaging 30-40 posts a day, so this might get a little long, but would at least make it easy to browse through and pick what's of interest.
Any Perl coders out there? Comments?
Thanks Pierre,
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Grant Johnson
Seek, and ye shall find.
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www.HorizonsUnlimited.com
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