"Tommie M. Jones" wrote: > > I am trying to get some input on a Perl based Email Archiver/Indexer. I > chose london.pm as one of my test mail list. > > The Web interface is located at http://www.intelliforge.com > > I will be submitting it to freshmeat if no major errors are found. > > Anyway feel free to make any suggestions. > Thank you
In case of flame, consider this a general purpose flame of the state of the "art" of mail archiving software, rather than your system particularly. Most mail archives suck. The *thread* is the only sensible level for understanding most comments on mailing lists, which are often short & pithy & have little substance by themselves, but are very useful in context. Even archives which will thread tend to make the user plod through a thousand pages, hopping through "next in thread / previous in thread" stuff. Such fragmentation also pollutes googles: I say > I just saw Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon"! The crazy bastard filmed by candlelight >on ISO ~100 > film stock! & everyone who replies generates a new entry in the search results! So: display by thread. *PLEASE*. Or at least have big thread-pages as an *option*, splitting rilly huge threads into multiple pages. The top page that shows all the mails at various times isn't v. informative - OK, so David Cross said something at 2010-01-01 00:00:00 (probably happy new year) - but what? How do I know which link to click? Consider showing the first few (unquoted?) words of the mail, or something. There is information overload. It is raining very heavily. I do *NOT* want an umbrella, I want a storm drain, some dams, and a hydro plant. And possibly some beavers to hang around, look cute, and puzzle censorware. (um, coat please ...) -- Tim Sweetman | http://www.aldigital.co.uk/ (my opinions, etc) A L Digital | "It's way too broke to fix" --- Placebo
