Fellow Vanagon Listee's

It's not exactly easy, but not that
difficult either:

Yes the GET command
is what I used, but you have to first get
a list of the archive files.

send an email to gerry
listserv@gerry.vanagon.com
with the subject:   VANAGON FILELIST

That gives you an archive list.. then I used
gnu emacs (any text editor with 'rectangular'
(e.g. columnar cut/paste)will work,
 to formulate a list  of 'GET' commands..

So.. see the following snipping of the
return of the first command......

date    Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 3:34 PM
subject "VANAGON FILELIST"

Reply

*
* Archive files for the vanagon list at GERRY.VANAGON.COM
* (weekly logs)
*
* filename      filetype        GET PUT size (bytes) date       time
* --------      --------        --- --- ------------ ---------- --------
 VANAGON       LOG9404         LOG OWN      766,788 1998-04-20 15:37:24
 VANAGON       LOG9405         LOG OWN      501,033 1998-04-20 15:37:44
 VANAGON       LOG9406         LOG OWN      100,917 1998-03-05 18:38:00
 VANAGON       LOG9407         LOG OWN      792,711 1998-04-20 15:38:16
 VANAGON       LOG9408         LOG OWN    1,501,131 1998-04-20 15:39:16
 VANAGON       LOG9409         LOG OWN    1,514,406 1998-04-20 15:40:44
 VANAGON       LOG9410         LOG OWN    1,560,470 1998-04-20 15:41:02
 VANAGON       LOG9411         LOG OWN    1,833,551 1998-04-20 15:42:34
 VANAGON       LOG9412         LOG OWN      477,582 1998-04-20 15:44:00
...
....
.....

Then you send another formatted email like the following to
gerry (same address as above)

You can put these commands in the body of the email as I recall..

Want to grab the first few? (the filename's changed BTW, so this still
doesnt preclude running the 'FLIELIST' command for yourself!

 GET VANAGON        LOG0001
 GET VANAGON        LOG0002
 GET VANAGON        LOG0003
 GET VANAGON        LOG0004
 GET VANAGON        LOG0005
...
....
.....

The cool thing is now that I have Google desktop search
enabled on my Windows or Mac, it will cache a local copy
of the search index on said machine.  Then I dont need to
necessarily be connected to the internet to retrieve the
info I'm looking for.  (of course, you have to be connected
for the initial indexing to work)

This takes the methods the other folks are using a step
further and makes it more portable/avail offline.

It is true though, most everything has been discussed about
these vans 'ad naseaum' :-) so the early archives dont
necessarily reveal any new info that the last 5 years or
so dont contain.  It is cool to be able to search by
name of poster, say Dennis Haynes, Benny Boy, Boston Bob (RIP)
and many of the other list 'illuminati'

hope this helps, but that being said.. please dont go
hammering the server with a ton of these commands, I'd
imagine if everyone does this, it's gonna bring gerry
to his knees!

All the listserv commands can be retrieved by issuing
a 'help' message to gerry.

 -tim

90 syncro westy
gilbert, az

http://www.timschneider.org

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