Very nice, thanks. A question regarding the older archives:
Is there any chance that the whole list archives could be included in the web front end? I find they are extremely useful source of information, and having them in the forum would make for a great one-stop place to search for info posted in the past. If you have a few emails from the lists prior to that you find yourself > often referring to, please feel free to forward these round the list again > so they're archived for posterity. > That's a nice idea, but I think having all the archives already dumped in there would be a lot more useful. Is there any technical (or legal?) reason that prevents you from doing that? Thanks, Ivan On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Ned Wilson <nedwil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nice one, Jack... much appreciated. :) > > On May 5, 2011, at 4:57 AM, Jack Binks wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > Due to popular demand we've made a few improvements to the mailing lists > in the form of a search-able archive and web front end. > > > > These can be found at http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ and act as a > bidirectional link up with the existing mailing lists. Anything posted to > the list will appear in the website thread listings, and anything posted to > the web will bounce out to the mailing lists (with a few minutes latency). > Note that the archives are both viewable and searchable without logging in > to the site, however if you wish to post via the web you'll need to log in. > This has a separate membership to the mailing lists, so use the register > link on the linked page to sign up. > > > > As with the mailing lists, these are not avenues for official support - > such reports should continue to go through supp...@thefoundry.co.uk (along > with any problems you notice with the forums!). The archives run back a > couple of months, ie since the bridge element has been running, and will > build with time. If you have a few emails from the lists prior to that you > find yourself often referring to, please feel free to forward these round > the list again so they're archived for posterity. The email and web front > ends are both covered by the pre-existing code of conduct, and please note > the additional T&Cs and privacy policies linked in the page footer. We'll be > setting up links from the main site shortly. > > > > An important facet of making these genuinely usable for everyone is > observing good thread etiquette, and that's down to all of us who use the > lists. The threads on the web front end mimic the threads seen in your email > client, so even if you don't personally use threads in your emails, please > do follow standard rules when responding to ensure the archives are easy to > search and follow, and indeed, for everyone else who does use a threaded > email client view. > > > > For those of you who don't generally use threads, there are lots of > resources on the web related to good etiquette, however the most important > from this point of view are: > > > > -When creating a new topic hit 'new email' in your client and set to: > <mailing list address> (eg nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk). Don't > find a different email topic on the list, open a contained email, hit reply > and change the subject as there's a secret squirrel identifier which is used > to id the thread and which hasn't been changed. If you do this then your new > topic will appear in the previous topic's thread. > > > > -When replying to an existing topic, open the email in the thread in > particular you are replying to and hit 'reply' in your email client, > ensuring the to: is set to the mailing list address. Do not hit 'new' and > copy and paste the subject over, as for similar reasons to the last post the > email will appear as a new topic, rather than part of the previous topic's > thread. An obvious difficulty that arises here is for those of you that use > the mailing list's digest view. If possible, when you get a digest mail you > wish to respond to, do so via the web front end against that particular > thread, so as to preserve that thread's integrity. > > > > Hope you find the improvements useful, and do let us know at support@ if > you run into any issues. > > > > Kind Regards > > Jack > > > > -- > > > > Jack Binks, Product Manager > > The Foundry, 6th Floor, Communications Building > > 48 Leicester Square, London, WC2H 7LT, UK > > Tel: +44 (0)20 7434 0449 - Fax: +44 (0)20 7434 1550 > > Web: www.thefoundry.co.uk > > > > The Foundry Visionmongers Ltd. > > Registered in England and Wales No: 4642027 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Nuke-users mailing list > > Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk > > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >
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