Re: [boost] Mail List Migration - Update

Subject: Re: [boost] Mail List Migration - Update
From: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-02-17 07:58:47

On 17 February 2017 at 01:43, Gavin Lambert via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 17/02/2017 13:18, Mateusz Loskot via Boost wrote:
>> On 17 February 2017 at 01:15, Gavin Lambert via Boost
>>>
>>> [4] works for me.
>>>
>>> (I'm reading and posting through the gmane NNTP gateway, so it's not
>>> down,
>>> just different.  I note however that the permalink for your own post [5]
>>> is
>>> not currently accessible but I assume that's a function of archival
>>> time.)
>>>
>>> [4] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/247192
>>> [5] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/270565
>>
>>
>> Thanks for correcting me.
>>
>> IMHO, still, thirdparty archives are too easy volatile.
>
>
> It's going to end up being a function of how someone found the post, though.
> [...]
> So anyone who wants to post a link to lists.boosts.org will have to search
> to find the message.

I feed Google search with, eg.

superproject site:http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/

> Mailman's web interface is still (to put it politely) laughable, and has no
> integrated search.

No question about that.

> Perhaps there's a way of making Mailman include more useful archive links in
> its headers?

I'm not a Mailman expert, but it seems there is a way to add archive
link to a message footer, as per this thread
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2012-March/073013.html

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net