List archive web interface wish list

Simon L. Nielsen simon at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 4 07:17:18 UTC 2004


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".

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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