[Foundation-l] Email list archives

[Casey Brown]

If I remember correctly, Fred Vassard was planning on cleaning up
mailman's search -- but I'm not sure if that's still this case.  (He's
CCed, not sure if he's on this mailing list or if he pays attention to
it.)

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Andrew
Turvey<andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I hope you don't mind my raising this issue here - it's a technical issue affecting all wikimedia email lists so I thought this would be as good a place as any.
>
> When I subscribe to an email list I tend to get emails delivered, but I sometimes find it useful to view older emails on the archive. I know some people like to read all their emails on the archive, so this is also important for them. It is also useful when you have to make a publicly accessible reference to a previous post.
>
> However, the standard interface and formatting in the archives is not particularly professional or up to date. For instance, looking at a recent message I posted to the WikimediaUK list:
>
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediauk-l/2009-August/004565.html
>
> The word wrapping is all over the shop and the formatting has all been stripped from the text. Some third party re-users do a better job, but it's still not all the way there:
>
> The Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg01470.html
> Google Mail: http://groups.google.com/group/wmf-wikimediauk-l/browse_thread/thread/a350852f8ad2ef63
>
> The line spacing looks funny with the first and you still lose the text formatting with the second.
>
> Has anyone got any tips about how I can either format an email to begin with or view the email afterwards to solve this problem?
>
> Secondly, has this technology been developed recently? Seems it needs a bit of investment, or alternatively, we need to move over to a better third party platform like, perhaps, Yahoo Groups.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrew
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Casey Brown
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