What about an NNTP or Web type list where there is an option to use RSS. Searching is really easy and it cuts down on the email!! Just a thought guys, thanks!!
73... Jon W1MNK Lux, James P wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Ellison > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 4:58 PM > To: Chuck Mayfield; FlexRadio List > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Broken KB links > > Chuck, > > I appreciate you comments, but there really isn't a way to change links in > Reflector posted e-mails. The URL syntax of the KB articles changed with the > new version of the software and this was unfortunately an unavoidable > consequence of updating. Additionally, I have no way of modifying e-mails in > the Reflector archive and even if I did, in the past three years, there have > been over 24,700 reflector postings to process. That would take an > inordinate amount of time to complete the task. Way too much time to expend > for an un-paid volunteer that owns his own business and works 60 hours a week. > > ---------- > > Perhaps, since the KB is a FlexRadio product, they can see their way clear to > providing support resources, if needed. > As a practical detail, what's so hard about a search and replace in the > archives? Or is there no mapping between old and new numbers that's trivial? > (e.g. there's no way to translate old KB article number X to new article > number Y?) If such a mapping exists, then writing a program to substitute > old style links with new style links in the archive is fairly straightforward > (depending on the format for the archive). I've done this for other mail > archives, and will volunteer to do it here, if the data is reasonable. > > If there's no direct mapping available, it's a bit trickier, but I think a > program can be written to match the content of the articles, especially if > some key things can be parsed out, and hashed. Again, I'd volunteer to > thrash on this. > > Jim, W6RMK > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flex-radio.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
