[plug] WA PHP mailing list

[Bret Busby]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Leon Brooks wrote:

> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:55:52 +0800
> From: Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.fdns.net>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> To: Perth Linux User Group <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Subject: [plug] WA PHP mailing list
> 
> For those who love a language with a function for every occasion:
> 
>     http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/phpwestoz
> 
> Cheers; Leon
> 

Looked for the list archive - "404 Not found on this server".

In looking at the list archives for other lists hosted at 
lists.linux.org.au, in the archives, the archives are ordered 
alphabetically, so that for any given year (after the year that the 
current ordering was implemented), December precedes February, which 
precedes January. Similarly, November precedes October, which precedes 
September.

>From memory, Leon, you are still a member of the Linux Australia 
committee.

I do not know what list software is used for the lists hosted by 
lists.linux.org.au, but the software used by Rootsweb for its genealogy 
mailing lists, has what I think is a slightly better archiving system. 
Rootsweb uses Smartlist from memory, and hosts about 26,000 lists, with 
traffic for each list ranging from one message every few years, to 
several hundred each day.

If, as an example, you go to the web page 
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/n/nutter.html, for the Nutter 
name list, at the bottom, you can see the links for the list archive, 
providing both search (for each year) and browse (for each month) 
facilities, with the order of the browse facility months, being 
chronological, and not alphabetic..

Could you get an investigation into the possibility of switching the 
list and/or archiving software, for the lists hosted by 
lists.linux.org.au, to improve the archiving of the lists?

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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 you'll know what the answer means."
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  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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