Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 22:39:07 -0500 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>, multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Multimedia Mailing List Archival and Web Interface? Message-ID: <19970323223907.02023@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <199703212129.NAA01968@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Fri, Mar 21, 1997 at 01:29:12PM -0800 References: <199703212121.OAA24938@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> <199703212129.NAA01968@rah.star-gate.com>
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Amancio Hasty: |Oh, an interface which we can use 8) I really hate the search engine |used on that web page and it is very, very close to be totally worthless. | |From The Desk Of Steve Passe : |> the multimedia mail archive is already available via the FreeBSD mail |> search page... What specifically do you have in mind? Second that one Amancio. Also, the archive isn't updated very often. Searches I made Friday on the multimedia list section show its vacant for the period of mid Jan to the present. A threaded searcher would be nice. What's there now is very slow, the fetches are always per-message, and message fetching is slower the higher you set your max-messages-to-retrieve, further testing one's patience. If you're trying to follow a thread, you hit max-messages, and you didn't notice before starting to browse, you need to requery with a higher max-messages and filter through all those with the same subject again to get to the new ones. Date ranges would be nice too. As it is, I ended up writing a perl script a while back that I could key in a subject and list of groups, and it'd sit and milk the archives dry for every matching message and put it in a mailbox-format file. Then I can use mutt (my mailer of choice) and do a nice, threaded, context- and syntax-colored read of the messages -- what I really wanted to start with. Randall
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