List archive web interface wish list

[John Murphy]

"Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>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).

I had forgotten the mailman archive, good to see it doesn't suffer
from the quoted-printable problem.

I prefer the weekly turnover, the reverse date listing and the Re:
prefix on replies in the older archive method though.

Is the older archive to be completely replaced by the "proper archive"
at some stage?

-- 
Thanks, John.