From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42273 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Eichwalder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mailing lists and news archiving Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 06:06:56 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87lmfc8qem.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> Reply-To: Karl Eichwalder NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177537 10448 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:18:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:18:57 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 16709 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2002 05:27:10 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 20 Jan 2002 05:27:10 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16SAV4-00061K-00; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 23:26:38 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 19 Jan 2002 23:26:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA21323 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 23:26:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 16676 invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2002 05:26:20 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16671 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2002 05:26:20 -0000 Original-Received: from elvis.franken.de (mail@193.175.24.41) by gnus.org with SMTP; 20 Jan 2002 05:26:20 -0000 Original-Received: from uucp by elvis.franken.de with local-rmail (Exim 3.22 #1) id 16SAUk-0000xL-00 for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 06:26:18 +0100 Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id E53B3A4FF3; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 05:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 19 Jan 2002 21:04:15 +0100") Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42273 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42273 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > My main problem with mailing lists is that I can't read old messages > in the same manner I read new messages. If I get interested in > subject X, then I can just browse the 400 last messages in the > newsgroup, and use the normal Gnus searching functions. "The 400 last messages" don't count :) Often you want to browse all the messages from the year 2000 -- and maybe, these are several thousends. > If it's on a mailing list, I (more often than not) have to use some > weird, exasperating web interface to the old messages. > > Pointy-clickety interfaces to mail are evil. Agreed! If you're a lucky one they have monthly raw mbox files sitting around somewhere -- unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be the truth for the PostgreSQL lists. -- ke@suse.de (work) / keichwa@gmx.net (home): | http://www.suse.de/~ke/ | ,__o Free Translation Project: | _-\_<, http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/ | (*)/'(*)