On changes to the Usenet side of Sun-Spots

[Larry Blair]

In article <2189 at kalliope.rice.edu> Sun-Spots at Rice.edu writes:
[ Sun-Spots didn't write anything! It was Skip Mantanaro <montnaro at steinmetz>]
>...
>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$$ | compress > $ARCHIVE/$vol.Z
rm /tmp/spots$$
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Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb%vsi1.uucp at ames.arc.nasa.gov