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

...and thanks for your reply too, Mr. Garrison. I hadn't read it till
just now. I store lots (all) of the ASA email in my Thunderbird
inbox, much to my wife's amusement. But that is the only way I have of
searching it at the moment. Then our email crashed and I lost most of
it. But you are right; that is one solution unless I'm searching back
months or years.

--Merv

Preston Garrison wrote:
> 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 20:47:05 2009