🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <EMV.91May16024531@poe.aa.ox.com>, emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
[probably I should wait for the archive administration group, but Ed
 raised the subject now - i'm trying to keep in in news.admin]
> expect to see from it.  For that matter, no one is funding the
> production of comp.archives yet -- I'm looking at it as a venture that
> has to be self-supporting (i.e. making money from user fees or
> provided under contract to some funding agency) within the next two
> years or I'll pack up shop and stop doing it.  

Ignoring the question of why you do it, I've been watching comp.archives
and wondering HOW you do it.  You can't possibly read 500 newsgroups
looking for postings that identify repositories.  Can you?  You recently
doubled the effort of making the posting by adding that verification
of the accessibility of the material.

So, is MSEN studying artificial intelligence?  Does a VP Research have
time to be working on a dissertation about information retrieval that
is analagous to snatching a drink from a fire hose?

I'm new here (my first toe wetting was near a year ago, how many years
will i feel obliged to say that).  However, even as a newcomer, I have
some feeling for the magnitude of the service to the community at large
represented by comp.archives.  Watching the traffic in it, I don't believe
half the authors know it exists - you bring in some odd things.

dan herrick
herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com