List archive web interface wish list

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2004.11.04 10:09:14 +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 08:17:13AM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > On 2004.11.04 02:25:53 +0000, John Murphy wrote:
> > > 1) Can messages which are sent to the lists in quoted-printable
> > > format be converted to something more suitable for browsers?
> > > Could the conversion occur on output from the raw archive so that
> > > I'd never see an =20 or =3D again (unless I use Google)?
> > > 
> > > 2) I often read http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/current/freebsd-questions.html
> > > It would be great to have a 'previous week' link, especially at the
> > > start of the weekend when the page links to only a few messages.
> > > 
> > > 3) When an answer includes an obvious reference to a manual eg.
> > > style(1) could it become a link to man.cgi if the manual exists?
> > > 
> > > 4) If some processing is going to be done on the raw message,
> > > as would be necessary for 3, could long single line questions
> > > be broken up into shorter lines?
> > 
> > These ideas seems reasonable, so I would suggest you file a www PR
> > with the ideas, so they do not get lost in the "noise".
> 
> However, http://lists.freebsd.org is the proper archive these days.

Except that the mailman archives are not complete (they start when the
lists switched to mailman).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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