real mailing list archives any time soon?

Kevin Altis wrote:

From: Will Sadkin

The ASPN mailing-list archive is terrible...

1) It doesn't seem to properly thread discussions; I've seen
   several discussions where messages that appear to have
   well-formed reply structure don't get added to their
   respective threads, and

They may simply be using the In-Reply-To: header to do
threaded discussions, so when In-Reply-To isn't available
or if people reply to a message, but then change the Subject,
rather than making a new post, you get messed up threads.

Greaat... Outlook 2000 doesn't add this field to a reply, and
I can't find a way to convince it to. So none of my (and I
suspect many others') replies can be threaded properly.
Terrific.

Exactly what did we gain by switching the wx lists switch
systems? (Can we go back to the trees??? <:-}
/W

Will Sadkin wrote:

Exactly what did we gain by switching the wx lists switch systems?

A host that has lots of bandwidth, is free, and not in danger of drying up and fading away, or kicking us off because of "fiscal reasons."

They were in the process of moving everything to ezmlm and didn't want to put us on Mailman. Not to be trite, but beggars can't be choosers...

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Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!

Will Sadkin wrote:

Greaat... Outlook 2000 doesn't add this field to a reply, and I can't find a way to convince it to. So none of my (and I
suspect many others') replies can be threaded properly. Terrific.

As I recall, this is in the options window for each email, "have replies sent to", but you have to set it for every email you send.

Poor Yorick
gp@pooryorick.com

I could offer to put the archives together with a full text search engine
onto one of my servers in the meantime until sunsite have sorted their
problems out. Don't have their bandwidth, but might be better than nothing.

Horst

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On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 15:05, Robin Dunn wrote:

Will Sadkin wrote:
> Exactly what did we gain by switching the wx lists switch
> systems?

A host that has lots of bandwidth, is free, and not in danger of drying
up and fading away, or kicking us off because of "fiscal reasons."

They were in the process of moving everything to ezmlm and didn't want
to put us on Mailman. Not to be trite, but beggars can't be choosers...

Horst Herb wrote:

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On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 15:05, Robin Dunn wrote:

Will Sadkin wrote:

Exactly what did we gain by switching the wx lists switch
systems?

A host that has lots of bandwidth, is free, and not in danger of drying
up and fading away, or kicking us off because of "fiscal reasons."

They were in the process of moving everything to ezmlm and didn't want
to put us on Mailman. Not to be trite, but beggars can't be choosers...

I could offer to put the archives together with a full text search engine onto one of my servers in the meantime until sunsite have sorted their problems out. Don't have their bandwidth, but might be better than nothing.

Thanks, but they got it going a couple days ago. The Search Archives link on the website is active again and takes you to a page where you can search all of the wx lists, or select only one.

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Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!