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[Shayne O'Neill]

Whoa.... lurker is nice

Notice another plug (philipines linux user group) uses it too :)

Hmm. Might be a good one for another bunch of Lists I maintain.

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Shayne O'Neill. http://www.perthimc.asn.au

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> Bret Busby wrote:
> | > While technically not searchable, you can use google to search for
> | > something specific:
> |
> | A few days ago, I tried searching using google, with the strings
> | "digital camera" and "linux", and the results that were returned,
> | included entries from the SUSE and Mandrake lists, but nothing from the
> | PLUG list.
>
> http://www.google.com.au/search?q=digital+camera+linux+site%3Amail.plug.linux.org.au
>
> Shows a heck of a lot of posts to the PLUG list for me.
>
> I've also read about a mailing list archiver called Lurker.
>
>         http://lurker.sourceforge.net/
>
> It has decent search functionality (something which the current PLUG
> archives don't have at all), a nifty threaded display with arrows and
> stuff, and generally looks spiffy.  The web site claims that it can
> handle gigabytes of mail without slowing down, though whether it would
> be practical to run on our 25 MHz Spark I'm not so sure.
>
> Onno Benschop wrote:
> | I'm not suggesting that this be adopted, nor that it is the definitive
> | list, but perhaps it will assist in the improvement of the signal to
> | noise ratio of this list.
> |
> | Initial modifications made to suit this list:
>
> You mean s/WAMUG/PLUG/ :-P
>
> Cameron.
>
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