Re: Old messages

Re: Old messages

[whukriede]

> There used to be a nice www archive wich is also mentioned in the FAQ on
> http://www-stud.enst.fr/~tardieu/mailarchive/zsh-list/index.html but it
> does not work recently.

I mailed him on August, 3, until now, there was no reply. I'd suggest to
remove this pointer from the Faq.

Greetings, Wolfgang.

Re: Old messages

[Bart Schaefer]

On Aug 14,  8:05pm, Zefram wrote:
} Subject: Re: Old messages
}
} I'd like to recommend against HTMLification of mail archives.  The only
} thing worse that broken-printable patches is HTML patches.

Having the archives HTMLified doesn't necessarily mean you can't get to
them as raw data.  Have a look at

	http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/archive/

as an example.

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Re: Old messages

[Zefram]

>If someone have a program which does threading and html conversion, works
>without any user interaction and simple to install, I can install it here to
>create an easily browsible www archive.

I'd like to recommend against HTMLification of mail archives.  The only
thing worse that broken-printable patches is HTML patches.  (Didn't I
learn from yesterday's QP thread?  Apparently not.)  The mail messages
are plain text, and now really only useful in an archived format (so
browsing is not much of a consideration).

It would be nice to have them available for ftp over a reasonably fast
link.

-zefram

Re: Old messages

[Zoltan Hidvegi]

> Please don't go too heavy on this site unless you need the articles as I
> only have a 64k link (which is why I haven't set it up as an easily browsible
> site).  Maybe someone else wants to do it on theirs?

If someone have a program which does threading and html conversion, works
without any user interaction and simple to install, I can install it here to
create an easily browsible www archive.  The Hungarian academic network has
a 1 Mbit link to Amsterdam and a 256 kbit link to Viena, which is usually
quite usable from Europe (I think that the outgoing badwich is not filled
completely).  The relyability of the US connection depends on the
Amsterdam-New York like.  Recently there has been some router problems in
New York which caused a lot of trouble.

There used to be a nice www archive wich is also mentioned in the FAQ on
http://www-stud.enst.fr/~tardieu/mailarchive/zsh-list/index.html but it
does not work recently.

Zoltan

Re: Old messages

[Geoff Wing]

Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
:> By the way, there's another fix of mine for a traditional bug, namely
:> the bogus `permission denied' error when trying to execute a
:> non-existent programme with an unreadable directory somewhere in the
:> path, which seems to have gone missing.
:I did not find it.  I think I accidently deleted it because I thought that
:I already merged it.  Cound you send it again to me?

People who *need* older zsh messages (from the math.gatech.edu lists) can get
them from	 http://www.primenet.com.au/zsh/

They are in gzip'ed tar files grouped by message number.
eg.  01xx.tgz   contains messages 100-199
The more recent ones (which don't complete a set) are as individual files.

There are a few missing.  For whatever odd reasons I never received them.

Please don't go too heavy on this site unless you need the articles as I
only have a 64k link (which is why I haven't set it up as an easily browsible
site).  Maybe someone else wants to do it on theirs?

I haven't bothered with the stuff from sterling.com list since it's probably
past its used-by date and gone old and moldy (and probably still on sterling).
-- 
Geoff Wing [mason@primenet.com.au]   PrimeNet - Internet Consultancy