How to search this mailing list?

[VHD]

Hi,

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You'll quickly discover the mailing list isn't so user friendly; there are=
 lots of complaints about it. For example, when the sort by date option is=
 used, you'll discover many posts seem out of order. This is becasue the=
 list somehow uses a strange method to determine the date, rather than=
 using the date stamp of the post itself.
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Yes I have noticed that already. (There might be a solution, which I=
 explain below.)

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Also, the way it decides on posts belonging to a thread is often incorrect.=
 

These are just a couple of the quirks that make it less enjoyable to work=
 with. Many people want a forum, but enough vocal people are still on=
 dial-up that has resulted in no change.
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It wouldn't be too difficult to customize a forum to send an email to the=
 user list whenever a new post was made. This way they could still receive=
 emails as they usually do. Replies to emails could also be processed and=
 stored in the forum database as well (the emails would have to be=
 intercepted and processed.). (Couldn't this be done using runrev itself=
 with mailman/python?)

On another note:
I have thought of getting the list archives and storing them in a database=
 (properly sorted etc...) so that I can search them more effectively.=
 (seems that there is a lot of knowledge in them.). 

Along these lines the database could be on a web host and accessed by=
 everybody using a runrev GUI ! (i.e. Have a forum without the need for a=
 web browser. Actually this would be a very neat show case of runrevs=
 capabilities (if it can actually do it.)) ... Any one interested in=
 starting a project?

Cheers,

Ben

P.S: BTW I am on dial up too and have no problems using a "normal" forum.


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On 27/09/2004 at 1:47 PM VHD wrote:

>Hi Andre,
>
>Thanks for the pointer. I did a few searches which proved fruitful.
>It is a shame that Google does not "sort" this list like it does with
>others. (i.e. Have all the messages belonging to a thread grouped
>together, for easy reading.)
>
>> Cheers and welcome!
>Thanks!
>
>Ben
>
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>On 26/09/2004 at 11:40 PM Andre Garzia wrote:
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>>Ben,
>>
>>go to Fourth World page, http://www.fourthworld.com/rev
>>there's a little link to search the list using google...
>>
>>Cheers and welcome!
>>Andre
>>
>>
>>
>>On Sep 26, 2004, at 10:02 PM, VHD wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just came across runrev the other day and it looks very promising.
>>> I had a few questions I need answers to, so I tried reading through 
>>> this mailing list to find some answeres, which is nearly impossible... 
>>> which leads me to ask: Is there a search function for this mailing 
>>> list?
>>>
>>> I don't want to ask questions that have already been answered 
>>> somewhere else.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
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>>-- 
>>Andre Alves Garzia =F0 2004 =F0 BRAZIL
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