Re: Complaints about using this list...

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Date: 01/06/05

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    Allan

    > On Thursday 06 Jan 2005 00:25, Kim Lux wrote:
    >
    >>I've got a couple complaints about using this list. I'm looking for
    >>suggestions to improve my experience with it.
    >>
    >>a) I can't seem to get searches to find topics that I know are in the
    >>lists. I don't have an example off the top of my head, but it would
    >>save me a ton of time if I could do a good advanced search on these
    >>archives, something like being able to specify multiple keywords in the
    >>subject or in the body, that sort of thing.
    >>
    >>b) I get the list summary, but it isn't convenient to reply to the posts
    >>like that. I can't reply on the list website itself and I don't want to
    >>get the list posts as individual emails because the volume is too high.
    >>
    >>I find reply to posts from the list summary to be slow because you have
    >>to manually edit the subject and if you don't get it right you've just
    >>created a new topic. I think I wish that this list (and others) were a
    >>regular usenet newsgroup, but I understand that would have some
    >>drawbacks too.
    >>
    >>How is everyone else working with this list ?
    >>
    >>I'm beginning to think that I should configure evolution to sort my
    >>emails into topics and get the whole list as individual posts. I could
    >>then search them from within evolution and I could easily reply to
    >>them.
    >>
    >>--
    >>Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
    >
    >
    > Kim
    >
    > hmmm. Most people seem to read the list via an email prgram as single emails.
    >
    > If you do need get it in digest form, you could always use a procmail script
    > to feed the digest email to another script that would beak the email apart,
    > and feed it back to your email reader as multiple emails ... not a simple
    > thing to do, but probably someone here has the knowledge.
    >
    > As for searching .. once you build up a number of emails in your reader, you
    > can use the reader's internal search mechanism .. I use KMail for this list,
    > and it can do pretty good searches.
    >
    > The on-line archive searching mechanism is always going to be a compromise
    > between giving people access to old messages and limiting the load on the
    > server.
    >
    > I'm sure someone will help here, but I do seem to remember there is either a
    > program or a method that will crawl the archives and download them as emails
    > to an email program? Anyone else remember where I might have seen that?
    > 

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