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At 06:49 PM 9/13/2006, you wrote:
>For anybody (like me) who is unfamiliar with Hypermail, you'll be
>interested to know that the resulting archive would be accessible via an
>Internet Browser, and the emails can be browsed / sorted by Thread /
>Date / Author / Subject etc. If you are familiar with the ETH Oberon
>mailing list archives at:
>
>https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/
>
>then you will know the sort of thing to expect.
The problem I see with that type of archive is that threads branch hopelessly, and it can be tedious to follow a discussion. Our discussions do not branch like that, so they could be presented in a more linear way. Even so, it can be tedious to follow a discussion one message at a time, although a tabbed Web browser helps. Somebody recently proposed something that looked like this:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/ , which allows you to view most or all replies at once.
(If we had the archive I would be able to find the message and post the actual example. I was disappointed that no one replied to the proposal.)
I have no idea what it takes to implement either one, and I sure wouldn't want to make the perfect the enemy of the good, however. It's really important to get one or the other working.
I also like the idea of hiding e-mail addresses, at least from past messages.
Rex Couture
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