There is a nifty WWW email-list archiving service that is free & robust. It's been in service since 1998, and is still in full swing. It has some advantages of being sortable by thread (!) or by date.
Anybody here could add our PowerMail-Discuss list to it, but I'm happy to handle it. It's no trouble. The result will be publicly web-searchable list archive, constantly updated. We still use this service to archive the Claris Emailer Talk list. We just don't want to "overdo" it by having several people all begin the archive at once. If someone else feels strongly that they must be the point person on this, fine, whatever. Otherwise I'll do it. I have personal PM list archives dating back to 7/2/04, which I could add to the public mail list archive. If someone else has much deeper archives, let me know offlist, and let's coordinate it. It needs to be in unix MBOX format, and I believe that PowerMail can export a folder of mail to an mbox format easily. That's the same as "Unix mailbox" isn't it? File-> DataBase-> export -> (selected mail folders)-> Unix Mailbox (do not include attachments). As part of the archiving process, the service automatically obscures any email addresses, to help prevent spammers from harvesting them. This is for our protection. Once the list archive is launched, perhaps CTM would like to web link to it. Question: * Is there any reason NOT to publicly archive this discussion list? * Does anybody in particular need to approve this action? Best, Dave Nathanson Mac Medix in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Jay's message of 4:20 PM, 9/29/05 >On 9/28/05, Ben declared: > >>>http://pmdiscuss.ctmdev.com/ >> >>Wow, that's news to me... people have asked on this list, repeatedly >>over the past several years, about whether there is an archive, and the >>answer has always been "no". When was this implemented? > >I don't know when it was implemented, but it's easy to see when it was >EOL's. The last posted archive is dated June 8, 2004. It must be an >experiment gone bad. Furthermore, when I tried a search using the field >which is headed "Google search of the PowerMail-discuss archive", I found >that it searches the Web rather than the archives. > >Bottom line: We are still waiting for PowerMail list archives. > >---Jay > >
