Re: Chevrons test
Re: Chevrons test
- Subject: Re: Chevrons test
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:40:06 +0100
on 12/9/04 4:35 pm, Chuq Von Rospach at email@hidden wrote:
>
> On Sep 12, 2004, at 5:42 AM, Martin Orpen wrote:
>
>> Talking of which... I've just noticed that John Stewart has managed to
>> get a
>> couple of his messages in the archives for the year 2033!
>
> if the system clock on the machine that creates the mail is wrong, so
> is the date in the archive. We were talking about that last night. I'm
> not sure if that's a bug or a feature yet. I consider it a feature, not
> all agree. Whether it leads to dropping those messages from the
> archives or coercing them to a given year or leaving them alone, we
> don't know yet.
I'm not sure I'd agree that it's a feature...
It's going to be rather difficult to follow a thread using the user's system
clock as the filing method. Surely the list server's time stamp would be a
better option?
>> But what's happened to the "search" facility? I couldn't see any links
>> from
>> the archives page.
>>
>
> the old search engine is dead. we haven't decided if we are doing a new
> search engine. We felt it was a lot more important to fix the archives
> to Google could index it and so people could easily download it to
> their local disks (think Tiger) than build another mediocre search
> engine. Now, down the road, if a dedicated search engine makes sense,
> we'll do it. But there were so many things that needed doing months ago
> (like the 8 bit thing) that we didn't want to wait until EVERYTHING was
> done in this release. We'll worry about doing more stuff in future
> releases, now that we've at least caught up on key issues like fixing
> the character issues and the archive layouts.
I suppose that that's a good idea now that you've removed our email
addresses from the published messages.
Personally I would have been tempted to make the archives searchable by list
members only and used something like mnogosearch:
<http://www.mnogosearch.ru/>
Suppose I could do that myself now that everything's public?
Regards
--
Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd -- The Image Specialists
http://www.idea-digital.com
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