Re: Full Thrust Mail Archives...

Jerry,

Personally, I have found the archives very useful, particularly when my 
email system started playing silly Bs!! I use the ASCII form (cause I
don't 
use elm). I think it quite important that we have some kind of list 
archive. The simplest way is what you're doing, but is fairly space 
intensive. A digest would be preferable, but that means someone would
have 
to sift the messages to produce it. I don't know anybody who would have
the 
time.

Any thoughts, anyone?

Mike Elliott

BTW, Jerry, thanks for the AOI game and your help as vice admiral (well,

OK, admiral most of the time). I didn't particularly want to be admiral 
anyway, but everyone else wnated me to be. Ho hum. 

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Subject: Full Thrust Mail Archives...
Author:  SMTP:owner-ftgzg-l@bolton.ac.uk/ at INTERNET
Date:	 02/12/96 09:02

Hello Everybody,

Just a quick note asking for comments about the mail archives.	It's
been 
about six months since I started storing everything, and I guess I'm 
just looking for some feedback on them.

So, do people use them?  Is the format alright?  Do people use either 
format?  (I keep the elm mail folder format so the MIME encoded stuff
will be 
alright.)  

Just in case you haven't taken a look at it:

http://www.uunet.ca/~jerry/full-thrust/full-thrust.html

in plain grey background.  (8-)

The only thing I can think of is making the digests a little shorter,
but 
that's going to have to wait until I code a script to take care of the 
archiving automatically (right now, I save all the messages using elm 
filter, but I have to transfer it to the WWW pages manually), and that's

going to have to wait until I graduate.  IF I graduate.  (8-)

Thanks,
J.

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