How do you get to the archives and about how far back do they got? The more the merrier.
Terry Powers -----Original Message----- From: Sabahattin Gucukoglu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 8:21 AM To: Braillenote List Subject: Re: [Braillenote] January 32? Hi Mary Ellen, On 3 Jan 2005 at 19:09, Mary Ellen Earls spoke, thus: [...] > Hay you know you can go to the archives and grabany nnujmber of e-mails > from Roselle or anyone else for that matter. Check your introductory > message as to how to do this but no doubt you will get loads of information > when you explore in there. The problem with that archive is that it is virtually all unusable and inappropriate chatter. It is 75% duplicates, making it unsearchable, as a result of consistently bad netiquette on the list over the years. Someone wants to teach some basic rules on here! I had considered it, though, and indeed I may resort to it if nothing should be forthcoming that I have not already learned about this remarkable list member (Roselle). However, if I do something I will do it to the greatest and most extreme extent, which means downloading the entire archive, installing it into my mail structure and indexing it, searching it on behalf of other list members for topics I share a considerable enough interest with the rest of the list, and reposting the pertinent messages in more-or-less verbatim and most original form, perhaps even to the effect that you will not even recognise that it is a repost. I do, at any rate, find the search site feature on Google utterly incapable under the circumstances, and Mailman is not to be blamed for this inadequacy. Perhaps Dean might consider using Gmain or mail-archive for archival purposes - it would certainly give listmembers a better and more usable interface, complete with search capability. Cheers, Sabahattin -- If an email tells you to forward it to all your friends, please temporarily forget that I am your friend. Sabahattin Gucukoglu Phone: +44 20 88008915 Mobile: +44 7986 053399 http://www.sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ Email/MSN: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Skype: SabahattinGucukoglu (requires authorisation, add me to your list first) SpeakFreely: sabahattin-gucukoglu.com (Please use CELP compression if your processor allows) ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
