Burmanet readers: would a burmanet (r)

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Subject: Re: Burmanet readers: would a burmanet database be of any use?

Yes, I would make use of this database.  www is not available from all areas 
in Asia, therefore other ways to access it would be valuable too.

>From: <strider@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 16:53:08 -0700 (PDT)
>Subject: Burmanet readers: would a burmanet database be of any use?
>
>Dear BurmaNet readers,
>
>  The BurmaNet mailer is at Peacenet in the United States 
>(igc.apc.org).  The entire archive of BurmaNet postings, going back to 
>January 1994 is stored on Peacenet's computer (3000+ messages/40MB of 
>data).
>  People with email accounts have access to all the back postings in
>chronological order.  For everyone else (which probably includes you),
>the mail shows up in your box and you can do with it what you will. 
>
>   I've checked with the technical support people at Peacenet about 
>whether the archive of material can be made searcheable(sp?) via the 
>Internet.  Their answer is yes (see below).  The catch is that it costs 
>money to set up the service.
>
>  What I need to know is whether you all would use the database enough 
>to make it worth doing.  Searches would be free to you all.  BurmaNet 
>or a donor would have to pay $200-300 for the programming.
>
>   If you think you would use this thing, please let me know.  
>Non-responses will be considered a no.  If you would like access to a 
>searchable database, do you have a preference for an interface (WWW, 
>email, telnet)?
>
>   Take care,
>
>       Strider
>
>
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>Forwarded note from technical support:
>
>Thanks for your note back.  We can probably do this, but we'd have to 
>spec out the time it would take and how exactly you want this offered.  I 
>am adding Anthony Whitworth to the loop of this note.  He knows databases 
>well, and is an IGC staff person up in Alaska.  This would probably take 
>us a couple of hours, and at $100 per hour, you might run up $200 to $300 
>in fees to make this happen.  Do you have a clear sense that there 
>actually is a need/market for this sort of thing?
>
>What we would do is take the contents of REG.BURMA and on a set schedule 
>we would dump it into a WAIS index that would be searchable to PeaceNet 
>users.
>
>Anthony, what do you think?
>
>--Michael
>
>On Fri, 26 Apr 1996 strider@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> No I didn't.  I am extremely happy that you can help.  I want to make 
>> it possible for IGC users to search the entire archives of the 
>> reg.burma newsgroup because it is the largest single source of material 
>> on Burma anywhere.
>> 
>> Previously, I got help from someone in the SF office who zipped the 
>> archive of reg.burma and mailed it to me but unfortunately, disk 6 
>> of the series was defective so nothing came of that.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>>     Doug
>> 
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>>  > From mstein  Fri Apr 26 13:41:15 1996
>>  > Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:41:13 -0700 (PDT)
>>  > From: Michael Stein <mstein@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>  > X-Sender: mstein@igc2
>>  > To: strider@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>  > Subject: Re: Question about a database
>>  >
>>  > Dear Douglas,
>>  >
>>  > Did you ever get an answer to your question from someone at IGC?  If not, 
>>  > I will help you.
>>  >
>>  > --Michael
>>  >
>>  > _________________________________________________________________________
>>  > Michael Stein       Voice: 415/561-6100 x110        Email: mstein@xxxxxxx
>>  > Director of Special Projects                       Info: igc-info@xxxxxxx 
>>  > Institute for Global Communications               WWW: http://www.igc.org
>>  > IGC Networks:      PeaceNet * EcoNet * ConflictNet * LaborNet * WomensNet
>>  > _________________________________________________________________________
>>  >
>>  > Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 11:07:55 -0800 (PST)
>>  > From: strider@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>  > To: support@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>  > Subject: Question about a database.
>>  >
>>  > Hello again,
>>  >
>>  >  My question is whether it is possible to put the contents of the 
>>  > reg.burma newsgroup into a form that is database accessible to Peacenet 
>>  > users.  Will this work?  How would it be done?
>>  >
>>  >  Thanks much,
>>  >
>>  >     Douglas  Steele
>>  >      moderator, Reg.burma
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