Extracting info from SIG forum archives

Peter Small (peter@genps.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 8 Sep 1996 04:56:49 +0100

What techniques, strategies, programs etc would anybody suggest for
extracting specific information from a list serve discussion list archive?

For example, DIRECT-L (the discussion list for users of Macromedia's
multimedia authoring package DIRECTOR). Posts mount up at the rate of 80 -
100 per day so we're talking about a current archive of 50,000 posts
averaging about 1k per post.

regards

Peter Small