[syndicate] Re: Human, all too Posthuman?

[Bart Zonneveld]

On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 03:22 PM, media at ezaic.de wrote:
>
>>> Wouldn't it be just enough to display some random bits of mails that 
>>> >>>>were posted on the syndicate list?
>
> I like that idea ... actually would be lovely for a 'reader' to 
> randomly display, so that it is not linear (hierarchical). the problem 
> is that we do not have direct access to the database the Syndicate 
> archive is based on. so basically we would have to do a copy of the 
> archives to the web space database (or a selection of some messages) 
> to have the possibility of displaying randomly parts of the archives > ..

> some other ideas ?

It must be possible to grab a random message (the url to a message 
makes sense) and use a regular expression to filter out the actual 
email, and then dump it back to a browser.

regards,
bartz
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