[Bell Historians] message archive

[John Camp]

At 22:14 on 24 June 2004, David Bryant wrote:
> Following the discussion of earlier in the week about the message
> archive, I contacted Yahoo. It would appear that there is no
> satisfactory method of downloading messages from the archive, so if
> we want to preserve them (and I think we should) they will need to
> be copied-and-pasted into HTML files. They can then be made
> available on the web.

Why HTML? The whole of ringing-chat, since October 1997, is available
on the web in .txt files. I can't see why you need to use HTML, which
just takes up more room.

John Camp