I've finally put all of the years of Plucker's mailing lists together, including the ones long before the current Mailman-hosted lists we have today. The lists go all the way back to 1999 (and some of those early days were funny! ;) They are all indexed, searchable, and have been converted to a web-accessible HTML format (you could probably even convert them to Plucker format if you wanted to, though I haven't tried that yet).
The "main page" to these archives is a pseudo-calendar-like interface; much easier to see which month and year of the lists you're reading. I'll continue to improve this over time, as I find more spare moments to work on it. Hopefully, the lists will remain "self-healing" also. The archives are updated daily, from my local sources, and the existing lists on rubberchicken.org. This is more than just a simple conversion to HTML... there was a lot of items that needed correction, such as the charsets, threading, and adding the custom search engine to index the lists.
Please send me back any comments and suggestions you might have regarding the list archives. I may put past months up for download in a Plucker .pdb at some point in the future if these archives get used enough.
The next item I'm working on, is taking this same source material and putting it up in an nntp (usenet) interface for reading. With all of the additional "side projects" going on with Plucker, it would be nice to gather those all into one place. The existing lists will be read-only, as seen in the news server of course, but there can be additional read-write newsgroups made available for others to post questions in as well. The main focus should always be the main mailing lists and the bug tracker, but other "non-topic-but-relevant" discussions can happen on the other Plucker newsgroups.
If anyone has any other ideas related to how we can further help the Plucker community, please let me know. I'm here to help.
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David A. Desrosiers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://gnu-designs.com
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