Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - Posts

DotNetJunkies Newsgroup Archiving Solution (Need Feedback)

I've been working on an archiving system for newsgroup posts (part of our newsgroup app) http://dotnetjunkies.com/newsgroups/

I just uploaded the first go and would like some feedback on features or ways to make it beter. I tried to follow some of the blog practices, but I know it can be improved as far as UI.

Basically the archiving app(a service) will run every so often, pull down newsgroup threads, and create static pages, directory, etc. I really want to attribute the pages well so google (and others) will be able to scrape them well enough to make a nice knowledge base. *if anyone knows any references for rock solid meta tags please forward them my way. I was debating on doing this myself, but the shear amount of data is mind boggling, you couldn't imagine how much data these things have.

Anyt thanks for any help you can give

go to : http://dotnetjunkies.com/newsgroups/ and click on archive. Note: I only brought down I think the last 25 root threads so there isn't a lot there yet, after I confirm the final bits for beta 1 i'm going back as far as i can.