RE: [Corpora-List] mailing list corpora

From: Paula Newman (paulan@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2006 - 04:22:35 MET DST

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    Adam,
    There's a standard "20 newsgroup" distribution. One source (first hit from
    google) is
    http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrennie/20Newsgroups/

    Paula

    > [Original Message]
    > From: Adam ENDRODI <borso@vekoll.saturnus.vein.hu>
    > To: <CORPORA@UIB.NO>
    > Date: 6/15/2006 6:10:59 PM
    > Subject: [Corpora-List] mailing list corpora
    >
    >
    > Hello there,
    >
    >
    > For a light survey on communication style on the Internet I need some
    > 10000 emails submitted to mailing lists or newsgroups. Language and
    > topic wouldn't matter as long as they are written in latin letters
    > more-or-less (I mean English, German, French, Spanish, Polish etc).
    > I'm interested mainly in non-IT-related lists.
    >
    > In the beginning I though it must be the most trivial task to find
    > archives suitable to my needs, but visiting a couple of public
    > archiver sites I realized they wouldn't provide robot-friendly
    > access to thousands of mails (mboxes), presumably because of the
    > fear of address-harversers. Archive.info told me French law forbids
    > the publication of raw emails. The op at mail-archive.com suggested
    > that I should google around. That said I looked around, just to find
    > out mostly IT-related groups (software developers and such) make their
    > archives available in mbox, which does not cover all of my needs.
    >
    > Thoughts, hints? Have you run into similar problems or indeed I am
    > the only one to miss the obvious?
    >
    > Thanks in advance:
    > adam
    >
    > PS: Please CC me your reply if you don't mind -- I'm not a list member.
    > Excuse me the inconvenience.
    >
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