A WWW archive system for mailing-list and USENET newsgroups

Gang Cheng (gcheng@npac.syr.edu)
Sun, 08 Oct 95 18:02:05 0000


We at Northeast Parallel Architecture Center (NPAC), Syracue
University has developed an archive system for searching/esading USENET newsgrou
ps,
mailing lists and personal mailbox from WWW. An Oracle database server is used
to store/manage mails and two search/navigation interfaces
accesible by any WWW browser
to the archive are provided: one is an advanced search interface
allowing queries with various options such as query by mail header,
by date, by subject (keywords), by sender. The other is a Hypermail-like
navigation interface for users familiar with Hypermail.

We offer free access to this archive for the Internet
Internet community. Check the URL

<URL:http://kayak.npac.syr.edu:1963>.

The whole archive is automatically updated in
every 30 minutes. Currently the following newsgroups (total 40) are archived
in the database:

comp.arch
comp.databases
comp.databases.oracle
comp.parallel
comp.parallel.mpi
comp.parallel.pvm
comp.lang.java
alt.www.hotjava
comp.infosystems
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi
comp.infosystems.www.announce
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.images
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc
comp.infosystems.www.misc
comp.infosystems.www.advocacy
comp.infosystems.www.browsers.mac
comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows
comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x
comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc
comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows
comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
comp.infosystems.www.servers.mac
comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc
comp.graphics
comp.graphics.visualization
comp.lang.c++
comp.multimedia
comp.security.misc
comp.sources.unix
comp.sources.x
comp.unix.admin
comp.unix.aix
comp.unix.misc
comp.unix.programmer
comp.unix.solaris
alt.comp.compression
comp.databases.object
comp.lang.perl.misc
syr.general

The following mailing lists are archived:

java-interest
java-porting
java-announce
hotjava-interest
sp-discussion
www-vrml
perldb-interest-request@fugue.com

This system is still under development and more functions are planned to
add to this system. Please send your comments to Gang Cheng (gcheng@npac.syr.edu
. Thanks.

--- Gang


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