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Agenda:
As planned, we began a discussion of the Chebucto Mailing-List
Archives system.
The current strategy uses a script as a subscriber to the mailing list,
which changes to the directory specified, and passes the message to a
script called arch2html,
which indexes the article based on its Subject thread, and adds a header
and footer which include html links to previous and next articles in
both chronological order of the list, and order in the subject thread as
well as a mailto link to the writer. End of thread and end of archive
are handled. Recently the archives have been placed in monthly sections,
and often relocated to other areas, typically IP areas.
The IP committee has requested we look at the feasibility of a tool to
extract inappropriate posts from the archives, and segregate an archive
into two or more separate archives. Other lists have been interested in
this from time to time.
Needs for Archives
- Generate FAQ
- Retrieve historical data
- Overview of activity of a group/list
- Review correspondence
Possible Strategies
- Substitute "Message Deleted" for the body of the Message to be
removed, leaving the links in place. Need special editing that does not
reset permissions on "end of thread" items, as it may break script.
- Delete the message and rebuild the indexing.
- Parse links and bridge them
- Move deleted items to private archive
- Have list-moderators bounce messages to archive as appropriate,
rather than passing every message sent by list.
- Redo user interface and display, with all this in mind
Final Question
How important is this task at this time?
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- Bulk-mail
- Hit a bug :(
- Passwd
- Will not compile
- Waiting for info from passwd maintainers
- Majordomo
- Integrating in distribution
- Zmailer
- Dumps core
- David Trueman is working on it :)
- Pine
- Translation in progress
- Apache
- Running as main httpd on
csuite.chebucto.ns.ca
- Quota
- Installed on Linux machines
- Not tested
- Note: guest quota is used as "template" for user setup. Since guest
has no file-saving options, this is not a problem.
- Note: need to document / suggest how to define partition sizes so that
quotas work effectively
- Start Page
- Seeking input
- Report next week
- Manual
- Review copies were printed and distributed by Joe Baker and Doug
Rigby at last week's Internet show. A log of reviewers was to be kept.
- Some feedback has been coming in to helpdoc mailing list.
- David Potter will follow up with Tony, Joe and Doug.
- Help Desk
- makesub has been run on the HelpDesk tree, and the documents loaded
in the repository, so all should be substituted and editable by the
HelpDoc team.
- David Potter will check for incomplete substitutions and other
problems.
- VCN host-names
- The post office has received reports of change in VCN taking effect
after a long time (12 hours) or never (weeks). Explanation unknown.
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- For Translation
- Registration Scripts
- Provide a language choice option early in process.
- Switch to appropriate language version of Registration Process.
- Set Lynx language preference in user account creation.
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Submitted by Ed
Dyer aa146@chebucto.ns.ca
Workshop Coordinator David J Murdoch djm@chebucto.ns.ca