Viewing redhat lists in a nice threaded way ?

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Thu Dec 14 12:26:45 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 12:08 +1100, David Timms wrote:
> Is there a web site that archives the redhat lists, but actually has a 
> decent UI ?
> 
> I've looked at:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/
> dislikes:
> - can only view either summary {thread list} or an individual message
> - confusing when you follow along the path of a thread, and then there 
> are multiple postings that come from that, and so-on
> - Archive by Thread has no dates indicated. Are newer threads at the top 
> or bottom ?
> - link follow-ups: don't continue into the next month {because the 
> archive must be cut at the end of month}. Hence a discussion may start 
> and then goes nowhere {without searching}
> - no word search.
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list
> like:
> - can search
> dislikes:
> - search by subject lists all lists, not just the list you are interested in
> - individual messages aka the redhat archive.
> 
> google {"specific string" site:www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list}
> like:
> - usually find relevant discussions
> dislike:
> - structure of the discussion - threading not explicit.
> 
> google-groups with view as tree is good once you have found a thread you 
> want to look into. Only does groups, not mailing lists.
> 
> Is there some other web based viewer of the redhat lists, that presents 
> it more like an email client such as thunderbird - ie panes/frames for 
> lists|threads|thread structure|bodies ?
> 
> DaveT.
> 

There's also gmane.
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general

- Gilboa




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