Hi ---
 
        Thanks so much for the positive feedback!!  I appreciate
the support.  I think I will keep the archive through at least the
year.  The archive is truly just one huge archive containing every
single email message sent over the last year.  John Chadwick, the
listowner for museum-l (kudos to John), sends me a monthly file
of the mail and then I append this monthly file to the file containing
all the months previous.  The file is stored on a Sun workstation
which resides on the Berkeley campus and is named UCMP1 (I like the
name of my email account machine better; fossil).
 
        The whole file is 9.5MB in size, which is huge.  However
the machine has about 2 Gigabytes worth of space.  The file is
not the only thing that costs space.  The indexing of the file
is also quite expensive (about 4.5MB of space).  The indexing
allows people to query on keywords and have all the messages in
the archive with that keyword returned through gopher.  It is
one way to figure out how many messages people are sending to the
list... (Holly, is this how you tabulate email messages?).  Since
any keyword can be searched, it is one way for people to find out
responses about museum issues.  A keyword search on "folklore"
returns 41 hits.  The headline of these hits is returned to the gopher
and these headlines can be selected to get the full message that
was sent.
 
        I hope this helps.
 
Cheers,
 
Robert Guralnick   | Museum of Paleontology   | University of California
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