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[steve ravet]

garfield at pilgrimhouse.com wrote:
> Well, now I AM confused; why then was that one guy asking for anyone who
> had digest #224 and #225 or whatever (I'm just guessing at the actual
> numbers he was lookin for). I just figured those archive_num_x above
> were spotty relics of the daily digest format. Hadn't read thru them
> raw, only used the engine so I didn't realize they were that big.

Digests are sent every day, which means they have 100 or so messages in
them (one day's worth of posts).  Archive files are created every month,
and so are much larger.  If you catenate all the digests for a month you
have an archive file.

> 
> One last question, if these archives are appended end to end, does THAT
> represent the traffic from the DIY big bang until now? I trust so, just
> wanna sanity check me understanding, now that it appears it's all there.

Yes.  Well, John used to take the old server out and use it for ground
penetrating radar experiments (how did those work out, BTW?), so some
posts were probably lost during those weeks.  But basically, yes, every
post ever made is there in the archives.

--steve



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