From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 4 13:52:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E31216A4CE; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 13:52:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freeode.co.uk (freeode.co.uk [213.162.123.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD3F43D2F; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 13:52:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sub01@freeode.co.uk) Received: from lexx (lexx.freeode.co.uk [10.253.253.2]) by mail.freeode.co.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iA4DqVs0080971; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 13:52:31 GMT (envelope-from sub01@freeode.co.uk) From: John Murphy To: doc@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 13:52:31 +0000 Message-ID: <8hbko0thjc7is6f13jfe2ka0ksjqa7ve0g@4ax.com> References: <20041104071712.GA752@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20041104100914.GE57641@submonkey.net> <20041104101635.GA71600@eddie.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20041104101635.GA71600@eddie.nitro.dk> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: ceri@submonkey.net cc: simon@freebsd.org Subject: Re: List archive web interface wish list X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: sub01@freeode.co.uk List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 13:52:35 -0000 "Simon L. Nielsen" wrote: >On 2004.11.04 10:09:14 +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 08:17:13AM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: >> > On 2004.11.04 02:25:53 +0000, John Murphy wrote: >> > > 1) Can messages which are sent to the lists in quoted-printable >> > > format be converted to something more suitable for browsers? >> > > Could the conversion occur on output from the raw archive so that >> > > I'd never see an =20 or =3D again (unless I use Google)? >> > > >> > > 2) I often read http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/current/freebsd-questions.html >> > > It would be great to have a 'previous week' link, especially at the >> > > start of the weekend when the page links to only a few messages. >> > > >> > > 3) When an answer includes an obvious reference to a manual eg. >> > > style(1) could it become a link to man.cgi if the manual exists? >> > > >> > > 4) If some processing is going to be done on the raw message, >> > > as would be necessary for 3, could long single line questions >> > > be broken up into shorter lines? >> > >> > These ideas seems reasonable, so I would suggest you file a www PR >> > with the ideas, so they do not get lost in the "noise". >> >> However, http://lists.freebsd.org is the proper archive these days. > >Except that the mailman archives are not complete (they start when the >lists switched to mailman). I had forgotten the mailman archive, good to see it doesn't suffer from the quoted-printable problem. I prefer the weekly turnover, the reverse date listing and the Re: prefix on replies in the older archive method though. Is the older archive to be completely replaced by the "proper archive" at some stage? -- Thanks, John.