[Corpora-List] mailing list corpora

[Paula Newman]

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 at vekoll.saturnus.vein.hu>
> To: <CORPORA at 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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