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From: vsi1!lmb@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: On changes to the Usenet side of Sun-Spots
Message-ID: <1236@vsi1.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 88 01:43:45 GMT
References: <2189@kalliope.rice.edu>
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Original-Date: 22 Nov 88 17:56:13 GMT
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 36, message 11 of 12

In article <2189@kalliope.rice.edu> Sun-Spots@Rice.edu writes:
[ Sun-Spots didn't write anything! It was Skip Mantanaro ]
>...
>As I stated in my response to the survey, I archive Sun-Spots. It would be
>more tedious to keep and use archives that were not in digest format.

I, too, archive sunspots.  It was pretty simple to set up an archive by
adding a user, named "sunspots", to the Internet mailing list.  The user
has a .forward file with:

"|sh /u1/sunspots/spotsave"

Spotsave is a script:

ARCHIVE=/u4/spotarch
cat - >/tmp/spots$$
vol=`sed -n -e '/ Sun-Spots Digest, /{' \
-e 's/^\(.*, \)\(.*\)$/\2/p' \
-e q \
-e } \
/tmp/spots$$`
start=`sed -n -e '/^SUN-SPOTS DIGEST/{' \
-e = \
-e q \
-e } \
/tmp/spots$$`
tail +$start /tmp/spots$$ | compress > $ARCHIVE/$vol.Z
rm /tmp/spots$$
-- 
Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb%vsi1.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov