2009/8/15 Andrew Turvey <andrewrtur...@googlemail.com>: > When I subscribe to an email list I tend to get emails delivered, but I > sometimes find it useful to view older emails on the archive. I know some > people like to read all their emails on the archive, so this is also > important for them. It is also useful when you have to make a publicly > accessible reference to a previous post.
We've, recently, discussed about this on WikimediaBR-l and someone pointed out Google Groups archiving solution. http://groups.google.com/group/wikimediabr-l/topics For me the main usability of using Google Groups is for making reference for a previous post. Someone even asked if Wikimedia would mind about the archiving using a third party platform. Do you all think there is some problem? > The line spacing looks funny with the first and you still lose the text > formatting with the second. For me Google Groups do a good job and it's enough. It's software just convert HTML formatted texts to plain texts, which I believe it more adequate for email communication. > Has anyone got any tips about how I can either format an email to begin with > or view the email afterwards to solve this problem? > > Secondly, has this technology been developed recently? Seems it needs a bit > of investment, or alternatively, we need to move over to a better third party > platform like, perhaps, Yahoo Groups. Two volunteers have said there are various scripts for archiving mailing lists. I'll ask them. I believe it's important to maintain archived Wikimedia mailing lists discussions on their own server, but I don't see any problem in using third party platforms for purposes such as making easier reference for the topics. See you, Tom -- http://blogdotom.wordpress.com/sobre _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
