There's actually a number of reasons. The first is that the phpbb forum method of threading topics is far superior (IMHO) to anything I've ever seen in any mailing list archive, including the rather nice one that David Moring has. All messages related to a given thread are available in a single view.
Consider the different views of the "Test message please ignore" thread. In David's archive (not to pick on you David, it's actually much nicer than most), each message is a separate URL: http://tinyurl.com/3b64os Here's the same thread imported into the forum: http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=56035 See how everything with the same subject is all threaded into a single page? Isn't that nice? The next reason is that the search mechanism in phpbb is also quite good: http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/search.php Finally, the forum link creates a place where people can view postings, make postings, and access archives -- all from the same place -- and without actually subscribing to the mailing list if they don't want to. (All messages sent to the list go the forum, and vice versa.) Finally, I've done this for NBU and NW already, and I'm just trying to bring it to TSM as well. --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup & Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Trying to download the ADSM-L archive On May 1, 2007, at 4:18 AM, Curtis Preston wrote: > The problem with the listserv get command is that it blocks me at > 16 MB > a day. At this rate, it's going to take a few weeks to get the > archive. > Can anyone help speed up the process? In the big picture, what is it you are trying to accomplish? From what Shawn found, you are attempting to create another copy of the ADSM-L archives at www.backupcentral.com. As noted in ADSM QuickFacts, we already have at least four ADSM-L archive sites: is there a compelling reason for another? > If I can get access to the ADSM-L archive in text format, I should be > able to import it the way I did with the other two lists. I sent a > message to the adsm.org webmaster last night and am waiting on a > reply. > ADSM.org is just a secondary list archive site - and an unresponsive one at that. You would be better off talking to the administrator of the list hosting site, Marist. Richard Sims http://people.bu.edu/rbs/
