Remember comp.sources.hp48?

[pier4r]

(08-24-2017 09:48 PM)Eric Rechlin Wrote:  I have archived comp.sys.hp48 (almost 230,000 posts since 1991!) and that will be included on the conference USB drive as well, and it would also be provided in my torrent (it's only a 72MB 7z file!). I took this week off work, in part to get this stuff done, and I just now finished a very rudimentary front-end to access the plain-text posts. I know Google Groups has this, but their interface has gotten so bad that it's almost unusable. Here are a couple screenshots of what I have so far:

What a great work! People like you (aka: sort of librarians) do not get enough recognition!

For MoHPC, I do not know about the old forum (those with the archives) although I guess it can be crawled.

For the new one (this one that will show this message), one needs just a database dump of all posts (most forums store the important data on a relational DB). This is valid only if the maintainer is active. I am not sure where to request this.

My idea is: almost all the things have pro and cons. Usent may be archived and distributed like p2p but may also be harder to organize and so on. It depends on the target, but yes, I love open source repositories of data.

As soon as you create the first torrent (I repeat myself: better to have something than having nothing, then the updates can be created later) please share the magnet link so I attach my homeserver and provide a bit of bandwidth (I do not have much bandwidth, but it is steady)

I used to share the reddit dump: https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/commen..._torrents/ (especially the first years) for a while. After sharing it over 30 times, I disconnected it. But because reddit is reddit, for a smaller community I'll keep it attached. Versioning is gold.