On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 05:05:46PM +0100, Egmont Koblinger wrote: > Non-ascii letters appear quite often in this mailing list, but (due to a > mhonarc bug) they are usually unreadable in the official web archive of this > mailing list. > > The bug is known and a fix is already available. About two weeks ago I wrote > a mail to the nl.linux.org admin asking for a fix but I got no reply. > > Is there someone here (Markus maybe?) who could get in contact with the site > admins and fix the archive?
Hi, I received a reply from the site admins. They're not willing to upgrade mhonarc, especially to a CVS version, since this might cause several undesired side effects, which is a quite acceptable argument for such a large site. On the other hand, they failed to understand that they wouldn't need to upgrade mhonarc, they'd only have to apply a rather small fix (inserting no more than two(!) bytes to one of the perl files), so they could stick to their current version of mhonarc (2.6.8) and hence surely avoid any side effects. And they ignore the fact that this two-byte patch is already in the mhonarc CVS which means that the author of the software says that this is the official fix for this particular problem. So I'm quite disappointed, for two reasons, one is that they're completely unwilling to fix this bug, and the other is that the archive of this mailing list is still unusable (expect for the ascii letters, of course). If you take a look back at the topics on this list, or you try to read some threads from the archive, you'll see that half of the messages completely lose their meaning. Any opinion from the "bosses" here? Markus maybe? Could you please do something to solve this problem? Maybe set up a different archive? Maybe completely move the mailing list to a new server...? -- Egmont -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
