Mail list archives Most list managers will choose to activate Mailman's archival features to make list history available to members. Mailman makes its archives available through each list's information page. Keep in mind that the list manager may have chosen not to archive a particular list to which you belong. Also keep in mind that it is a general practice to make the list archive available only to list subscribers.
If the archive is 'open' then you will be able to go straight in from the information page. If the archive is for subscribers only then you will be prompted for your email address and your list password. Once in, you will be shown a historical listing. The default setting for the archive is to divide messages by month. Do not be surprised, however, if you see some other division of the archive contents: the list manager decides how things will be divided up. There are different viewing options for each month: Thread separates topics from each other and then displays the messages that are part of each "thread" following one another in an indented fashion. This view is best to use if you want an idea of how conversation on a particular topic progressed. Subject sorts all postings alphabetically by the subject line. This view is useful for finding a particular topic, but it will not show the relationships in a visual form as in the Thread view. Author sorts all postings alphabetically based on the name of the author. Date sorts all postings by the date they were delivered to the list. The final option allows you to download a gzipped version of the archive for that month. gzip is a compression utility whose files end in '.gz'. Most zip utilities are able to open gzipped files. This option is useful if you want to search the archive on a particular term (you can use 'most any word processor or text editor or grep utility). After you have chosen how you wish to view the archive you will see the headers of the messages displayed according to your specified criteria. To read an individual email, just click on its subject line. When the email appears there will be additional navigational information allowing you to see the previous or next message (as you had them sorted), or to request the listing of all of the emails again sorted by a different criteria. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John W. Benedict" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 9:27 PM Subject: [Dxbase] Searching BBS Archives > Hello DXBase Group > > Is there a way to search this BBS archives? > > John > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > >
