Maybe it could be submitted for indexing to markmail.org - it has a very handy UI for searching about past topics. I use it for an other development list for search and it is always a pleasure.
Robin 2010.09.26. 12:35 keltezéssel, Pieter Hintjens írta: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Stefan Sandberg > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What exactly IS the missing feature Google would provide, other than (what >> appears to me)that you'd like it >> better integrated into how -you- do things, probably because you already use >> Google's products regularly? > I think the question is "what's the problem here". Having spoken with > Daniel a little offline about this, it's not about any particular > preference for Google groups but about difficulties in using the > current email structures. > > These difficulties are well known to all of us, I think. Most of us > accept them but still, they cause pain to newcomers. > > The biggest problem is what I call Email is Not a Database, the > difficulty of finding relevant material. People have tried to create > 'topic pages' on the wiki but that went nowhere. > > A better search function might help, but still, it's rather hard to > know what to look for until you know the material. Catch-22. > > I've worked extensively with Wikidot in the past and it can solve this > problem _very_ well since it gives easy tools to separate transient > from persistent material, but has the big disadvantage of breaking the > "reply by email" workflow that we love so much. > > Mato proposed some other platforms but those would require a wholesale > move off this list manager onto something new. > > My own view is that the list works well, and that anyone who feels > pushed to collect material in more accessible forms will do so. > Essentially this is a development list and discussions are by default > transient. > > We may want to make it clear that the list is for development > discussions rather than first-line help. First line help might work a > lot better with a more traditional forum model where 90% of material > is persistent. > > -Pieter > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
