Subject: Re: email archives (was Re: WIKIs for the ports pages on netbsd.org)
To: Christopher W. Richardson <cwr@nexthop.com>
From: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 12/29/2005 12:16:42
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Christopher W. Richardson wrote:

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> "Ben Collver" <collver@peak.org> writes:
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>>> That's right, people could join up the mailinglists, choosing

>
> What are we using for mail archiving, and is there any (easy) way
> to make this more user friendly?  Mostly, I'm on the lists that
> matter to me and have the mail stored locally, so this mostly
> isn't a problem for me.  But, I have to think that a new user
> would find it very unfriendly (I know I do on the rare occasion
> that I need to use it).  I've occasionally even gone so far as
> to download large sections of the archive just to be able to
> search and sort locally -- but this too is very unfriendly to the
> new user.

Doesn't the marc have it? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/

Thread viewable modes, etc.

>
> For my money, fixing the searchability/sortability of the mail
> archive would be a better use of time than either a redesign of
> the web-site OR the implementation of a wiki :)


>
> Cheers,
> Chri
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