Complaints about using this list...

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Thu Jan 6 03:24:35 UTC 2005


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Allan

> On Thursday 06 Jan 2005 00:25, Kim Lux wrote:
> 
>>I've got a couple complaints about using this list.  I'm looking for
>>suggestions to improve my experience with it.
>>
>>a) I can't seem to get searches to find topics that I know are in the
>>lists.  I don't have an example off the top of my head, but it would
>>save me a ton of time if I could do a good advanced search on these
>>archives, something like being able to specify multiple keywords in the
>>subject or in the body, that sort of thing.
>>
>>b) I get the list summary, but it isn't convenient to reply to the posts
>>like that.  I can't reply on the list website itself and I don't want to
>>get the list posts as individual emails because the volume is too high.
>>
>>I find reply to posts from the list summary to be slow because you have
>>to manually edit the subject and if you don't get it right you've just
>>created a new topic.  I think I wish that this list (and others) were a
>>regular usenet newsgroup, but I understand that would have some
>>drawbacks too.
>>
>>How is everyone else working with this list ?
>>
>>I'm beginning to think that I should configure evolution to sort my
>>emails into topics and get the whole list as individual posts.  I could
>>then search them from within evolution and I could easily reply to
>>them.
>>
>>--
>>Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.
> 
> 
> Kim
> 
> hmmm.  Most people seem to read the list via an email prgram as single emails.
> 
> If you do need get it in digest form, you could always use a procmail script 
> to feed the digest email to another script that would beak the email apart, 
> and feed it back to your email reader as multiple emails ... not a simple 
> thing to do, but probably someone here has the knowledge.
> 
> As for searching .. once you build up a number of emails in your reader, you 
> can use the reader's internal search mechanism .. I use KMail for this list, 
> and it can do pretty good searches.
> 
> The on-line archive searching mechanism is always going to be a compromise 
> between giving people access to old messages and limiting the load on the 
> server.
> 
> I'm sure someone will help here, but I do seem to remember there is either a 
> program or a method that will crawl the archives and download them as emails 
> to an email program?  Anyone else remember where I might have seen that?
> 




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