Re: [GBlist] archive size

[Speireag Alden <Joshua.M.Alden.91@alum.dartmouth.org>]

Sgrìobh Ethan Goldman:

>The list archives (including current postings) are on-line at 
>http://solstice.crest.org/discussion/greenbuilding/current/ and 
>allow you somewhat more limited functionality that what Janet 
>described, but they do allow you to read the list by date or by 
>thread and to search the archives,

     Alas, I have found the archives to be functionally useless.  On 
occasion I've been unable to find my own posts even when I knew the 
exact subject line.  This is especially frustrating over a slow phone 
line like mine, 'way out at the end of the road.  Fortunately, I have 
a good system for archiving my own sent mail automatically, and I 
save anything remotely of interest for later, so I don't often have 
to use the archives.

     Nevertheless, judging by the feedback from new members after I 
re-post one of my larger detailed accounts, many people would find 
searching on the body of the posts invaluable.

>What other features would people like to see? Not just for 
>administrating the mailing list, but also any other ways to get and 
>share green building information and advice.

     In my view, a good archive search is the single best way to 
improve this list's services.  Anything which provides greater access 
to the vast knowledge which this list provides is to the good, and 
there's a great deal of knowledge sitting in those archives.

-Speireag.
-- 
I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree 
which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the 
valley of the Euphrates.  -- Theodore Roosevelt 

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