Complaints about using this list

[Mark Eggers]

Archive searching is definitely a challenge.  You might try using the following:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2

marc.theaimsgroup.com has excellent search capabilities for a wide variety of mailing lists. 

I receive the digest as well.  Evolution 2.0.x handles digests reasonably well if you tell the mailing list to send you the digest in mime format.  I'm writing this from the Windows side via a web mail interface, so I may not have everything set accurately.

You do that in http://www.redhat.com/mailman/options/fedora-list after you log in with your email address and password.  Just check the appropriate radio button.

Once you start receiving mail in mime digest format, you'll get a list of topics, followed by each message in its own box.  Above each box there will be an arrow that lets you collapse that particular message as well as another arrow that shows a drop-down menu.  That menu will give you options to reply to the list, reply to all, or reply to the sender.

The option is not perfect.  The default mime display has all message parts displayed, so finding a particular message in a digest is a pain.  I wish that Evolution would collapse all mime parts and just display a title next to a button for each part.  Collapsing sometimes positions the view at the end of the message (at least under KDE).

Thunderbird doesn't handle MIME digests any better.  I've not tried KMail.

Sounds like yet another opportunity to write a) a plugin for Thunderbird or b) some tweaks for Evolution.

HTH

/mde/
just my two cents . . . .

-----Original Message-----
I've got a couple complaints about using this list.  I'm looking for
suggestions to improve my experience with it.

a) I can't seem to get searches to find topics that I know are in the
lists.  I don't have an example off the top of my head, but it would
save me a ton of time if I could do a good advanced search on these
archives, something like being able to specify multiple keywords in the
subject or in the body, that sort of thing.  

b) I get the list summary, but it isn't convenient to reply to the posts
like that.  I can't reply on the list website itself and I don't want to
get the list posts as individual emails because the volume is too high. 

I find reply to posts from the list summary to be slow because you have
to manually edit the subject and if you don't get it right you've just
created a new topic.  I think I wish that this list (and others) were a
regular usenet newsgroup, but I understand that would have some
drawbacks too.   

How is everyone else working with this list ?

I'm beginning to think that I should configure evolution to sort my
emails into topics and get the whole list as individual posts.  I could
then search them from within evolution and I could easily reply to
them. 

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Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.