On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 08:13:50PM -0500, Christopher W. Richardson wrote:
> As long as we're discussing web-site redesign and wikis, I've a
> question/comment on our mail archives.  I've long been dissatisfied with
> the NetBSD mail archives; in particular, it's impossible (near as I can
> tell) to search in chronological order, or to arrange mail in a threaded
> order.  For example, I just searched on "cyrus spamassassin".  The first
> link is from 2004 (which may or may not be fine), and is "port-macppc:
> Re: Cyrus/Postfix/spamassassin setup for NetBSD ?". Now, since that's a
> "Re", where the heck is the original post?  It doesn't appear anywhere on
> the first page of the search, and if I click on the email, there's no way
> to get from it back to the mail archive (let alone the specific thread).
> After some fiddling, one figures out how to get to the right month's
> archive for the right list, but even there items aren't threaded.
> 
> 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.

I agree.  A great solution would be mbox downloads.  That way you could
also reply to e-mails on a list you're not subscribed to.  

	Geert