On 19/06/2015 07:36, Nico Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 07:14:03PM -0000, John Levine wrote:
>
> There's an export to mbox/maildir option! Yes! (I used to keep a
> script to stream-edit the almost-mbox mailman archives into mbox
> format. It seems I've lost it.)
>
>> When reading through messages in a thread, there's no easy way I can
>> see to go to the previous or next message other than to click up and
>> down on the list of messages. That's OK but you can't tell what
>> you've already read (the old version provided this sort of by accident
>> in browsers that change the color on links you've visited), [...]
>
> The old-style mailman archive, the one with a link for each month (or
> quarter), with by-thread and by-date views, is hard to beat. Granted,
> having a different archive by month (or quarter) was a bit of a PITA,
Not when looking for a particular thread of messages in early 2000,
as I was the other day. I couldn't find any way with the new one of
finding a date range many years ago (maybe I'm just stupid). It's a
bit fiddly with the old archive, but can be done.
Long live both archives.
Brian
> but not too bad. Still, an mbox/maildir export feature... that makes up
> for the UI faults (which hopefully will get fixed in due time).
>
> Hmm, [spam] HTML e-mail gets rendered... Is that a problem? Probably.
>
>> But the most concerning is indexing, or lack thereof. [...]
>
> +1
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