Mailing list archives: what next?

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an fichiú lá de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: 

 > I've now restored XEmacs Beta archives back to January 2004.  My
 > priorities from here are XEmacs Patches archives for 2006 and 2005,
 > then XEmacs Review for 2006 and 2005, then all of XEmacs CVS logs,
 > then the miscellaneous archives and past volumes.
 > 
 > I'm hoping things will go faster as the spam filter (yes, a fair
 > amount of that stuff got into the archives, and now is a great time to
 > get rid of it) stops throwing false positives.
 > 
 > I'll be working on indexing/search capability as I go along; no ETA
 > for that yet.
 > 
 > Anyway, those are *my* priorities; if yours differ, now would be a
 > good time to speak up!

list-archive.xemacs.org had really powerful Googlejuice, to the extent that
a couple of months after it disappeared it’s still in their index, and that
doesn’t really happen for other sides of late. (Cf.
http://www.google.ca/search?q=site:list-archive.xemacs.org .) Having Google
index recent mail with the same importance given to the old XEmacs mail
would disproportionately help getting work done today, IMO, so restoring the
list-archive.xemacs.org address should be done soon. Plus, it makes indexing
and search less of a problem. 

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