--- Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 1/15/08, simonpedia simon@cols.com.au wrote:
As one reads through this monthlythread, and tries to make
some sense of all the semi related conversation
(between the usual suspects)
before they are archived after 30 days, does it
ever occur to the team how
impossible it is for a newbie to get orientated?
The idea of a forum in
which threads aren't cut (I,e, where discussions
go back years) and
conversations can be related (redirected) across
elists and the workers
identified, has been raised quite often. Is there
any reason why they aren't
used? (Apart from "We don't want to change!!!")
I don't understand your question; what archiving are you talking about?
It seems to me, he is talking of the mailman archives of this mailing list[1]. Besides threads being broken up by the change of month there are other problems that have been mentioned to some degree in the past. Periodically "permanent" urls to the archives are re-shuffled leaving broken links. Certain mail clients seem to not get archived at all, for example none of Aphaia's post can be found in the archives outside of someone quoting her in their reply. Certain mail clients seem to archive without line breaks making those messages difficult to read [2]. Those are all the problems I can remember with the archives.
Birgitte SB [1]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/ [2]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-December/036323.html
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