Re: Beta 1: Conlang Mirror Archives

Hi!

taliesin the storyteller writes:
>...
> Heh, you've managed to do what I planned to do for years, until
> the harddisk that I was storing the archives on died and there
> was no backups. Up to that point I had just about the entire
> history of the list (Though, I was also reparenting messages
> that wound up in the wrong threads due to for instance people
> hitting reply instead of compose when starting a new topic).
> Making use of Google to do the searching is brilliant, btw, I
> was planning on writing my own search.
Nice to get positive feedback! :-)

I *could* do searching on the server, too, since everything is in a
fulltext indexed SQL data base, but due to the size, I think Google
will always be faster no matter how much I try to optimise.

The archives are in a dedicated subdomain to make it easier to
restrict the scope of the search with the Google interface -- this was
another problem with the Listserv archives when they were still
searchable: you got hits from other, totally unrelated lists.

But as mentioned, it will take a while to get indexed.

> Will threads be broken over months, btw?
No, threre will be no breaks at all.

> Anyway, the links: conlang or just a very pretty name generator?
>...
Vladimir wrote:
> Neat! Especially remarkable is the thread / message ID to URL mapping
> scheme - quite appropriate for what's being archived :)
I found numbers too boring and implemented a very simple phonology
expecially for this purpose. :-)  'Conlang' would be too much to call
it.  The design goal was to map numbers up to 2^32-1 to max. three
syllables. :-P

**Henrik

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