I am on the Editorial Board of an automated email list called FOM. Homepage: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/fom
Its archives are also freely available on the web: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/ It uses Mailman 2.1.6. We are totally unsatisfied with using Google site search to search the Archives. The following features would be a HUGE improvement over what we have: 1. Type in a name of an author, and it searches first to find the closest match to the correct full name of an author. Then it lists operational links to all of these, together with the dates of these postings. 2. Type in a "subject string". It searches to find all postings whose subject line contains that string. Then it lists operational links to all of these postings, together with the dates of these postings. 3. Type in a "content string". It searches to find all postings whose content contains that string. Then it lists operational links to all of these postings, together with the dates of these postings. Additional features would be valuable, but not necessary. Is there such software off the shelf? If not, how many man years would you estimate would be involved in getting this written and implemented? Harvey Friedman University Professor Ohio State University ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp