X-Message-Number: 21178
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:22:15 -0500
From: "Kevin Q. Brown" <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet Archive Reader

In CryoNet message # 21172 Rick Potvin said:
 > Before Cryonet had a digest format, it was readable by author.
 > Will Kevin Brown consider making it possible to that again?

Hello Rick,
I think that you are confusing Keith Lynch's CryoNet
archives with mine.  He created extensive cross-reference
lists that sound like the ones you recall.  His priorities
shifted to other projects sometime ago, though, so his
CryoNet archives no longer are up-to-date.

 > A much easier way to read Cryonet than the digest-format
 > is to use the latest ARCHIVE page.
 > http://www.cryonet.org/0001211.html

That file can be reached when browsing the archives from URL:

     http://www.cryonet.org/archives.html

Browsing that way retrieves only one message at a time,
whereas you seem interested in reproducing Keith Lynch's
cross-reference by author.  That information can be derived
from message 0001 (not to be confused with message 1),
which always contains a one-line description of _all_ the
CryoNet messages.  It is over 1.3 MB long, and continually
growing, so I wouldn't recommend downloading it for casual
reading.  To make it more accessible, I just wrote a simple
CGI script:

     http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/findauthors.cgi

for extracting a list of all authors of CryoNet messages on-the-fly.
When clicking on the hyperlink for an author you will receive
a list of all messages he or she posted to CryoNet.
This "findauthors" script is not very bright; it thinks that
"Richard Potvin" and "Rick Potvin" are different people,
so you will need to click on both those hyperlinks to retrieve
all the CryoNet messages you posted.  Some other people have
accumulated _several_ variations of their names over the years.

 > Before Cryonet had a digest format, ...

CryoNet _always_ had a digest format.  Several months ago
I explored the option of porting it to a Mailman list,
which would give each subscriber the option of receiving
digests or receiving messages one-at-a-time.  Unfortunately
it was not possible to replicate all the important features
of CryoNet with a Mailman list.

     Kevin Q. Brown
     

PS: You always can reach me at:
       
     so when you have a question or request it's not necessary
     to post a message to the entire CryoNet list and hope that
     I read it, too.  I'm also CC'ing this reply to CryoNet since
     you posted your query there and since other CryoNet readers
     may be interested in the "findauthors" script.

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