Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 09:56:37 +0000 From: Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Mailing list archives Message-ID: <0111040956370K.01404@stinky.akitanet.co.uk>
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Hi all, Last night after digging around on freebsd.org searching for bits of information, I got frustrated enough to sub to this list and instead of moaning, try to help out. Forgive me if this is something already on-going elsewhere, but I had a few suggestions as to how I might be able to help out on a few areas. My main problem right now is the mailing list archives. The mailing list archives should be a gold-mine of information. They should be really easy to use, and if you're trying to get up-to-speed on a project's status, nice to browse. The problem is at the moment they kind of work if you work to find your information. I want to work on something to lower the barrier of entry and make mailing list archives a nicer place to be. Threading support is minimal, browsing is painful (unless you know 3k file sizes mean virtually no posts that month), and searching is over-complicated if you just want to quickly find out what is going on around some bizzare feature. I appreciate that there are third-party solutions that address some of the features that I hope to try and implement, but they either cost money or suck. I also appreciate that this is a project that goes outside of the scope of FreeBSD and I should be talking to Majordomo maintainers, but I want to write this to the spec of what FreeBSD needs. If there is already a project going on along these lines, or people think this is a waste of time and would prefer effort going elsewhere, let me know. Otherwise, I'd like to move forward and try and get started writing code within the next week or so. -- Paul Robinson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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