I have been reading the posts and it seems that there might be some automated tools to do what is proposed with the mailing lists. If anyone wants to see how this could work, just check out the Debian Linux mail archives. THese are threaded and webified and made searchable. THe programs required to do this include "mhonarc", "procmail" and "list-archives". If this is of interest I can look into it more deeply and see how it might be done for the ifeffit list. http://lists.debian.org/ http://lists.debian.org/search.html Carlo On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Bruce Ravel wrote:
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 03:35 am, Peter Southon wrote:
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:02:24 -0600 (CST) From: Matt Newville
Could this FAQ sufficiently fill the role you're thinking of?
Not precisely what I had in mind, its better. Would it be possible to add links from the faq to threads in the archived mailing list? This way somone (anyone) can add important mailing list discussions to the faq without re-typing a whole bunch of stuff.
Every entry in the FAQ server that Matt set up is editable by anyone who looks at it. Thus, links can be added by anyone who so desires. This is not to say that an htdig-style index would not be useful (clearly it would). But, between the software, the documentation, and the web sites, Matt does a lot. I think the proper response to Matt's announcement of the world-editable FAQ server would have been something more along the lines of: "Excellent! That kicks ass, Matt! Now everyone can contribute to the challanging yet extremely important problem of documenting all this excellent software."
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