moving from wikipedia-l: On Wed, 7 May 2003, Jimmy Wales wrote:
It would be pretty simple for me to write a quick perl/DBFile search engine for the mailing list archives. It wouldn't suck all that much, and it could be linked on the archives themselves, I suppose.
Random thought: would it be possible to have mailman insert into the message footer the URL for that message in the archives?
I sometimes find I want to cite a message from one of the lists on the wiki or elsewhere and while it's trivial to look it up in my mail archives, I need to go to the web archives and find the message all over again in order to point other people at the same message short of just pasting the entire text in again.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)