Re: Downloading messages
- Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> May 19, 2005
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Mario Steele wrote: > Robert Craig wrote: > > > > Some people have Internet connections where they pay by the minute, > > or have a monthly time limit. Those people don't like to read > > EUforum while connected, but in some cases they can't use > > Topica either, due to spam filtering or some other silly problem. > > > > It might be helpful for these people to know that all > > messages for the current month are stored in: > > > > <a > > href="http://www.listfilter.com/mlist/current.txt">http://www.listfilter.com/mlist/current.txt</a> > > > > Right now it's around 300K. It gets updated immediately > > when a new message is posted. > > > > Previous months are stored as: > > YYYYMM.TXT > > > > e.g. April 2005 is stored as > > <a > > href="http://www.listfilter.com/mlist/200504.TXT">http://www.listfilter.com/mlist/200504.TXT</a> > > Thanks Rob, this should make things easier for people. And to add another > level > of simplistic views to it, I'm currently working on a Front End GUI, with > wxEuphoria, > to download the Messages, and display them in a GUI Format. I've got all the > base > parsing, and ideals down for it. It will, as many may want, have Threading > abilities > in it. > > Meaning, that messages such as this, will come up looking like this in a Tree > View: > [-] Downloading Messages > Robert Craig (May 17 4:47) > Mario Steele (May 18 6:02) > > Etc Etc. > > Any suggestions, ideas, and what nots, are much appreciated. Also, Rob, would > it be possible to setup a CGI Script that'll take the User's Name, Password, > and post information all at the same time? Cause I might also incorperate a > posting ability through the Web Forum into the program itself. I'm not sure how much work that would be. I'd have to discuss it with Junko. I guess if a lot of people wanted to use your system, I could spare some time. Thanks, Rob Craig Rapid Deployment Software http://www.RapidEuphoria.com