[MD] Are the archives in good shape?

[Ant McWatt]

David, Horse, Ian,

Maybe this would be a good time to properly organise the MOQ wiki as well?

Best wishes,

Anthony


Quoting Horse June 27th:


Hi Ian

This is something that's been bugging me for quite a while now. As David
says, we have a number of archives from different list managers and the
earlier archives are not currently in a state that will easily
facilitate searching etc.
It would be good to get the archives into a searchable format and as
David has made a start on this I'll contact him off-list and see what he
has in mind.

Cheers


Horse


David Harding wrote:
>Ian,
>
>I've been thinking about this and looking into it recently.  And from  what 
>I can tell there is currently no central archival database.  Moreover, 
>there is no way of displaying just one persons posts they  have ever made 
>on a single page.  Not even the broken up archives, as  the state they are 
>in at the moment, can do this on their own.  You  can display All posts 
>over the archival period of each database, but  you cannot display just the 
>posts of one person on a page.
>
>The reason the archives appear to currently be in three different  
>locations is because three mailing list managers have been used, two  
>different versions of one manager and another manager (Mailman) that  we're 
>using now.
>
>I've looked into the possibility (for starters at least, we can look  at 
>displaying of information later) of merging the three archives and  the 
>good news is, it's possible.  I've saved some links and I was  going to 
>look into it further and make it easy as possible for Horse  to do as I 
>know how busy he is.
>
>Cheers,
>
>David.
>
>On 28/06/2007, at 2:23 AM, ian glendinning wrote:
>
>>Horse, Ant,
>>A question of mechanics ....
>>
>>What's the most convenient way to search the MoQ.Discuss archive for
>>subject / names / keywords of interest.
>>
>>Ian



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