All The Wisdom in the World, ...Retraction of Offer

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" <drednort at a...>
wrote:

> ...edited...
> 
> But when people start talking about distributing CDs of the 
> messages, I get a little bit concerned. A lot of people share some 
> quite personal information at times on these lists, and many would 
> do so only with certain expectations of how that information is 
> stored.
> 
> Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
> Shaun Hately 


bboyminn:

Good point Shaun, something I hadn't considered. 

I would like to point out that the information regarding the
availability would have been confined to this group, meaning people
who were not members would not be likely to have access to it.

Also, the archives are in .ZIP files each of which contains a text
file, and each text file contains 1,000 posts. To search them, you
have to load the file in a text editor and search for terms and
phrases, but unlike Yahoo, you can't search for multiple terms or
phrases. Not a very good format of data mining.

None the less, with Shaun's comments and at the request of the
Moderators, it's not such a good idea afteral. People can individually
download the files, just as I am doing. If it uses too much disk
space, you can burn them to CD and erase them from your hard drive.

It was just a thought.

Steve/bboyminn