List archive web interface wish list

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Thu Nov 4 10:09:16 UTC 2004


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.

Ceri
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