Hi,
I do believe it is to the advantage of everybody to add a search script on
the website that will search the current archive.
For those of a technical inclination, the archives are available on the
mailing list page - you can view archives for various periods of time in
your browser, or else you can fetch gzipped UNIX Mailbox exerpts for the
same periods. Furthermore, you can fetch the very latest raw archive,
uncompressed, as a single UNIX Mailbox (.MBOX or .MBX). If you have an
email client which can import and examine such mailboxes (Eudora, Pegasus
Mail, Pine, Mutt, et al), then import the archive into your folders and
you have instant, searchable, sortable access to a reasonably up-to-date
version of the archives. In this archive can be found many answers to
repeatedly-asked questions, resolutions to repeatedly-brought-up
discussions, and lots more; there is however quite a significant part of
it that is redundant, off-topic, thrice-quoted emails or whatever else.
I guess I take this opportunity once again of asking people to keep on-
topic, to alter subject lines appropriately, to keep from quoting
gratuitously and/or without consideration, and to behave. It will help
the list now, and, in turn, the archives will be more useful. When the
archives are useful, people can use them, and the traffic on-list is
reduced such that we all enjoy staying and don't get the violent urge to
leave for the nth time (I can't count the number of times I've posted to
the effect that I have wanted to leave, and then done so, because of the
way the list has operated and been used in the past).
There is one more thing for PulseData - does KeyMail 6.1 fix the wrapping
of text issue? That, too, would be much appreciated, and will help every
user of this list.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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