Well you're talking about NNTP here.
On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 01:58, Jim Meyer wrote: > On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 08:23, Not Zed wrote: > > What exactly do you mean? > > > > You can already setup a vfolder based on a mailing list match, and then > > search on that at will ... > > True, but that only searches mail in my mail stores. Ideally, I'd love > to treat mailing list archives as a mail store, but that feels very, > very hard if not impossible. Consider instead the following: > > If a mailing list is archived and searchable somewhere, I'd rather not > maintain all that mail myself; instead, I'll keep the important bits > local and use their search engine to find stuff in the list archives. > However, that means that I have to switch from email to web browser, > remember where that bookmark for their search engine is, go there, then > submit my search. > > Galeon has the concept of smart bookmarks; these are bookmarks that have > the ability to receive a string argument and incorporate it into a URI, > then go there. For example, I've got a smart bookmark for Ximian's > Bugzilla which reads "http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=%s";. I > keep this on a toolbar in my browser, which causes it to show me a text > field beside a Ximian logo. If I type a number in that field and hit > enter, I'll shortly be presented with that bug number from Ximian. > > What I think would be cool is to be able to store as a folder property a > similar URI (e.g. the fictitious URI > "http://lists.ximian.com/search.cgi?list=evolution&keywords=%s";) which > could be used to tell whichever browser I use to search for more results > than are available locally. > > This would let me somewhat fake treating a list archive as a mail store > in a somewhat simpler manner than actually trying to treat it as a mail > store. > > Meanwhile, this has given me the desire to investigate how one could > make a Mailman-archived mailing list appear to Evolution as a mail > store. THAT would be wicked cool. > > Cheers! > > --j > > > On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 01:29, Jim Meyer wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > The bizarrest idea just popped into my head unbidden: what if a folder > > > could be designated as a "Mailing List" folder and given an external URI > > > for additional search results? > > > > > > As most modern mailing list management software offers archiving and > > > most modern mailing list managers put search engines on top of that, it > > > would seem that something along the lines of Galeon's "Smart Bookmarks" > > > feature would be useful in the mail client as well. > > > > > > Hey, I said it was bizarre. =] > > > > > > --j > > > -- > > > Jim Meyer, Geek At Large [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > -- > Jim Meyer, Geek At Large [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
