On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Fr�d�ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > Yes - the first thing to do is to turn off the spam (modify the process > > so the archives only get what's sent to the mailing list). Cleaning up > > the archives can be done second. > > What do you mean ? I already cleaned most archives, and > Savannah doesn't archive spam. > > What I meant was that we have 3 options if someone sends a > message to the old lynx-dev:
... > deal with the spam from the old lynx-dev. By spam I mean most > messages from non subscribers that currently go to it. yes (3) is what I was talking about. > > That was what Russell McOrmond said. Among other things: > > To solve the problem you need to solve two independent issues: > > > > a) Who has the time and trust of the community to do the pruning? > > Remove the spam ? I did it. I looked into that for bug-ncurses, but did not get a response when I sent email to the contact addresses. Cleaning the mail archive was (similar to lynx-dev) a few hours work. Perhaps (if we find someone on Savannah who answers email ;-), I could purge those as well. > > b) People are linking directly to message URL's -- if you remove a > > message from the mailbox archive and then re-run MHonArc then all the > > message numbers (and URL's) change. > > Removing the spam is so we get a clean archive at Savannah, not > to clean FLORA.org. You're righy about the URL's changing, but > I guess there's no way to make the FLORA.org archives link to > the ones from Savannah, even if we maintain the same messages > in both. It would be a lot of work unless we could make flora a mirror (and then the url's would be a problem). > And if we don't want to break the URLs, we can't remove the > spam from FLORA.org. They can cure the disease, but not the > damage it has done in the last years. > > So, instead of what I proposed, redirecting all links under > http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/ to the main page of the new > archives, add a note to > > http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/ > > and > > http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/ > > about the new archives, and maintain the old, with the spam, > for historical reasons ? Simply redirecting the links would be simpler. I did that when I dropped clark.net a few year ago (Verio is only interested in "business" customers, I recall). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
