Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 12:04:11 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any perl maniacs out there have a desire to improve our mail robot? Message-ID: <199602042004.MAA19180@block.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Feb 1996 15:31:46 -0800." <6938.823303906@time.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote:
> The biggest problem the info robot service has right now is stale
> information brought about by the fact that the info robot has its own
> copies of everything. There are no links into our other docs, nor are
> any search services offered (which limits its utility somewhat).
So, would it make any sense to use something like an 'ftpmail' (I think
I've seen one that'll retrive WWW links too) server for this? Or maybe
build something on top of such a server so the components of your
'%filelist' can be URLs to the real handbook from www.freebsd.org? Then,
set it up so you can send various format incarnations of the information
back as different MIME content types. Sounds like a fun project, but I
can't volunteer ("real work" keeps getting in the way).
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div)
1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109
Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
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