Yes, now if Ivan and Frank die on a plane crash we can all rest assured that
all that knowledge won't be lost! ;)
But seriously guys, never travel on the same plane together!


On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Ivan Busquets <[email protected]>wrote:

> Many thanks, Jack.
> And sorry that ended up being so much trouble!
>
> I certainly appreciate it, though. Paired with the search engine of the web
> forum, this will be a huge source of info.
>
> Thanks so much, and have a great weekend.
>
> Ivan
>
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Jack Binks <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Well, that was more painful than I expected. Definitely need something
>> more fortifying than tea and biscuits now!
>> The web front end should now have been updated with the mailman archives
>> we have here, sewn together with individual's mail archives for areas where
>> the central ones were lacking. Anyone who's registered on the site today
>> will need to re-register I'm afraid, and there may have been a post or two
>> dropped in the changeover as I had to unlink to set up a bridge to an mbox
>> importer and then feed posts into that. Not very pleasant.
>> Have a nice weekend all.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jack
>>
>>
>> On 06/05/2011 17:38, J Bills wrote:
>>
>>> awesome to hear, thanks for the extra effort jack!
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Jack Binks<[email protected]>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> They're unfortunately not consistently 100% of posts, but since you've
>>>> asked
>>>> so nicely I think I've found a (nasty) way of porting what archive data
>>>> there, is with some testing on an offline site. I'm going to attempt to
>>>> finagle this on the production site now, or rather once I've had a
>>>> fortifying cup of tea and a hobnob. Note that the forum bridge is going
>>>> to
>>>> be down until I complete this, so anything posted there won't make it
>>>> over.
>>>> New posts to the list via email will stack up however and should make it
>>>> (barring the potential for one or two).
>>>> I will email against once this is complete, be it a success or failure.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Jack
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ivan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Ned Wilson<[email protected]>  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 [email protected](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 [email protected]).
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> Jack Binks, Product Manager
>>>>>> The Foundry, 6th Floor, Communications Building
>>>>>> 48 Leicester Square, London, WC2H 7LT, UK
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