Re: [asa] how do you search recent list archives?

This is why I keep the last 6 months to a year of the list stored in
my POP client (Eudora). I wish I had had the hard drive space to keep
the last 4 years. Eudora can search that much pretty quickly on a 5
year old Mac laptop. The trouble is that for some reason there are
messages that never arrive by e-mail. They appear on the server, but
I never get them by e-mail.

If someone could figure out how to extract just the From, Date and
Subject lines from the stuff on the calvin server and put them in a
file, it would be easy to search them in a web browser. If they
linked to the messages that would be nice.

This could be done, I think, with a fairly simple Perl program, which
could be rerun regularly and appended, but i don't know how to write
it for Terry. Does someone?

Preston G.

>Merv,
>
>This is why most corporations and organizations that have a customer
>support knowledge base use a web based tool (with an underlying
>database server) instead of an email listserver.
>Web based tools and content managers have built in search engines and
>word indexing on the content.
>
>But folks who like email wont use a web based tool.
>
>I've been talking to Randy a bit about building a wiki for the ASA for
>its content. But I have few expectations that the email oriented
>people would be motivated to contribute to a wiki. A scholarly wiki
>is not for opinion and chat. Try authoring in wikipedia or theopedia
>to see what I mean.
>
>But the recent rush of list members to FaceBook has been encouraging.
>People are beginning to see they can use email as a "notifier" but the
>content is still on the web.
>
>If you haven't added me to you FaceBook page (I dont remember at the
>moment) , please do so.
>:)
>

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Received on Sun Feb 15 14:11:51 2009