[Xitami] New wiki project for Xitami

[Paul Reid]

 > port into a simple structured XML format that can be reused by 
different people afterwards.

If you script-gurus can do that in 2 clicks, fine.

I suspect that future interest in the great Xitami will be too low to 
justify any real time/effort to organize the old emails.

 > I can certainly get you access to the archives.

There's about 13 Megs of text, but (as we see it) broken over 70+ files. 
13 megs is not small, but it is no longer a modem-choker like it was in 
1999. And it ought to compress very well, couple-Megs.

If you, Pieter, have internal access to dump the whole collection in one 
semi-ordered text file, just do it and post it somewhere. I started 
doing it by hand, and tried to 'cat' the pile in year/month order to a 
single file, but 700+ clicks wore me out.

(Also ".gz" is not something most Windows folks know what to do with. I 
do, but I turned to a unix box rather than try to teach Windows new 
tricks. Plain old ZIP may be more widely usable. I have not tried simply 
re-naming the .gz to .zip )

If someone really wants to, they can pull the 13 Megs into most modern 
text-editors and "Find.." their search-term, then use Find... again to 
follow interesting threads by Subject header. Few of our threads have 
been long or branchy.


  -PRR