Hi folks,
As I've mentioned to a few people, I'm committed to getting the GZG
list archives back on-line. I had planned to use mhonarc as before but
it's pretty ugly these days.
Phase 1 is now in place: https://lists.firedrake.org/gzg/
This evening I've been going through the archives looking for
badly-formatted mail. I'm sure there's plenty left. (Years of posting
ranging between 1971 and 2020, not to mention "100".)
Phase 2 is to be a search engine. (The indexing for this is already
being done, so it's just the front-end to write.)
Phase 3 is live updates from list posts. This post itself may well not arrive
on the site for a bit.
R
Found my first post, December 1996, OLD Compuserve account
Michael Brown Sheridan, WY
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From: Gzg <gzg-bounces@firedrake.org> on behalf of Roger Bell_West
<roger@firedrake.org>
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 5:35:22 PM
To: gzg@firedrake.org
Subject: Archive resurrection, phase 1
Hi folks,
As I've mentioned to a few people, I'm committed to getting the GZG
list archives back on-line. I had planned to use mhonarc as before but
it's pretty ugly these days.
Phase 1 is now in place: https://lists.firedrake.org/gzg/
This evening I've been going through the archives looking for
badly-formatted mail. I'm sure there's plenty left. (Years of posting
ranging between 1971 and 2020, not to mention "100".)
Phase 2 is to be a search engine. (The indexing for this is already
being done, so it's just the front-end to write.)
Phase 3 is live updates from list posts. This post itself may well not arrive
on the site for a bit.
R
Good luck with that. I tried downloading all the archives and importing them
into multiple mail clients a few years ago and it was a mess. None of them
could handle it, but each for different reasons. I downloaded and
recompiled some of netscape's code to handle mboxes and it was great -
fast and straight up clear, but not enough for what I wanted to do.
That said, I'm happy to see someone else trying it. I'd like to work on it too
if you have any pieces you can send my way, because I'd really like to see
this available. Can you give us a github link or equivalent?
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 9:31 PM, Michael Brown <mwsaber6@msn.com> wrote:
> Found my first post, December 1996, OLD Compuserve account
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 03:00:35AM -0500, Ray Taylor wrote:
I appreciate the thought, but I think I've got things for the moment. I'll
certainly release the code when it's a bit cleaner. Feature requests are
welcome. Out today, more coding tomorrow.
(Inter-message links are also on the list.)
R
Can I just add a note of gratitude for the effort? I was just pointing out to
someone of my old Tuffleyverse organisation, and thought about giving the
archives a look to jog memory of when I might have first mentioned it, but
will wait for you to continue. Thanks again!
Doug (The_Beast)
On Saturday, December 30, 2017, 3:41:29 AM CST, Roger Bell_West
> <roger@firedrake.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 03:00:35AM -0500, Ray Taylor wrote:
I appreciate the thought, but I think I've got things for the moment. I'll
certainly release the code when it's a bit cleaner. Feature requests are
welcome. Out today, more coding tomorrow.
(Inter-message links are also on the list.)
R