[NTLK] Age of List

[Peter Fraser]

So cool. Just searched and found my earliest recorded posting to be from late 2001.

Holy crap I feel old. 

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-- Peter
pjfraser at mac.com

> On Mar 28, 2018, at 3:20 PM, NewtonTalk <newtontalk at pda-soft.de> wrote:
> 
> I have all NewtonTalk digests since November 2000 in an Outlook personal
> folder. Guess you'd need Outlook or some program that can import the Outlook
> personal folder format. However, uploading this folder somewhere would be a
> huge security issue since these digests contain the E-Mail addresses of the
> senders. With almost 20 years of NewtonTalk, this would account for a huge
> pile of addresses, and not everybody might be happy if he suddenly finds his
> address published in the web.
> 
> The last time I have been playing with this was in 2002. Back then I used a
> one-mile-long regular expression to parse that stuff and remove the E-Mail
> addresses. However, I dimly remember that there were still some IP addresses
> in the Message-ID: headers left. No idea if that would still be an issue
> today, but it shouldn't be all that difficult to extend the regular
> expression by another quarter of a mile so that, in addition to the E-Mail
> addresses, it'll also remove everything that looks like an IP address.
> 
> Be aware that we still have an online archive at our disposal:
> 
>    <http://newtontalk.net/archive/>
> 
> On this page you'll find a link that brings you to our searchable archive,
> which quite amazingly has been online for the last two decades and is still
> working hunky dory.
> 
> Frank
> 
> -- Newton software and hardware at http://www.pda-soft.de
> 
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