hi Aside the new mailing List layout it might be of use to have some related information for new list members
MHonArc For some of the users it might be of interest to have a sdb/howto article how to set up a local MHonArc at home. It has several advantages using MHonArc (or others) for home use. I'm using monarc now since several years for a lot more than 100 mailing list and it is a very big help to handle HUGE ammounts of mails. Using MHonArc is a good way to keep my actual maidirs usable. So my MhonArc data is increasing over the time my maildir folders used by kmail keep small and there is no lack of speed/usability. And using MHonArc makes it a bit more convinient in my eyes to do a backup of this data. This due to the fact that I'm able to stricly have data on a data only partition. swish++ As Henne mentioned in his mail 'Layout of the new mailinglist archive' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> he is playing with swish++ as fulltext search/indexing tool. I'm using swish++ for several years now and it's still (one of) the fastest full-text indexing and search tools. Even if it needs to run a cron job from time to time to keep the index up to date and so it is not a real time indexing system like beagle it is a lot faster than beagle or others. So for my Document partition of 3.8GB it has an index of 340MB. For my MhonArc Tree of 2.2GB it has an index of 180MB. otrs, Ticket request system For a few power posters it also might be interesting to have a sdb/howto how to set up and use otrs (open ticket request system) for the opensuse mailing lists. This is an idea I'm thinking of as a more future help for potential new (not only) Novell/SUSE employees. Such systems are used by most (not only IT) companies and so it may help in two ways: Those of us who might be interested to become involved in a more professional way it is a bit a training on the job. For a company on the other hand it's helpfull if a new employee will now how to work with ticket tracking systems like otrs. And third, it might also be helpfull for the openSUSE Project itself. I would assume by the use of tools like otrs the quality of support given by ambitious users might increase because of using a tool which is more effective than an ordinary email client is. For them it will make it more comfortable to follow dozen of threads they are involved in. (Beeing subscribed to a lot of mailing lists (more than 100) and over the past beeing involved in a lot of free software projects and their events I myself would be lost without such tools like MhonArc, swish++ and otrs. ;-) regards, thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
