First, I want to thank all the lurkers who responded to my request for feedback! I am pleasantly surprised by the number of responses: thank you all.
In exchange, I heard a common theme amongst a lot of the responses: searching the AOLSERVER list archive using the LISTSERV interface is annoying as it requires you to log in first. Also, the LISTSERV archive isn't indexed by Google or other popular search engines, so unless people subscribe to the list and use the LISTSERV's pretty pathetic search facility, they won't find messages: newbies to AOLserver most likely won't know to do this. So, I've gone through the process of getting the AOLSERVER list archived at Gmane, a wonderful gateway service at http://www.gmane.org/. The list archives can be read here: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.aolserver Here's a link to the search page: http://search.gmane.org/search.php?group=gmane.comp.web.aolserver&sort=relevance Once Google indexes Gmane, the archive's articles should show up in Google searches, too. Append your search terms to this URL to urge Google to limit searches to just the archive at Gmane: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aarticle.gmane.org+gmane.comp.web.aolserver As an added bonus (!!!), I've supplied my own personal mail archive of all the messages I've received from the list since January 2000 when the list was created, and the kind folks at Gmane have started importing them all! So, very soon you will be able to search the archive all the way back to the beginning. (I think my archive may be missing a total of 50 messages over the past 4 years. Oh well, I'm sorry about that.) I hope this new archive will be useful to folks, and hoepfully will help more people once the mailing list contents can be found via Google. I'll continue to gather everyone's feedback and try to come up with other common themes, but the next big one is, of course, the documentation which is being actively worked on. Again, I plead with everyone: help out, pitch in and contribute to the documentation! Either by helping to write it, or by making specific requests for what documentation you feel would be most useful! As usual, feel free to send requests directly to me off-list and I'll take care of the rest. -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
