flexfax: **ANNOUNCE** Mailing List Archives now online.

[Phil Watkinson <pkw@elgro.co.uk>]

Hi everybody,

At last!  The mailing list archives are back online at :-

           http://www.hylafax.org/archive/

They are set up in months starting from January 1997 each with a 
date index and a thread index. There is also a search facility
which searches the whole of the messages rather than just the 
header as per the previous version.

The search facility is easy to use, simply type in the words (sorry
not numbers) you are looking for, the results are ranked in the
frequency of the search words in the document, with importance given
to words that appear at the top of the message (ie header) rather
than the bottom.

For example, given 'Solaris Sun' the search engine will look for
messages with 'Solaris' *and* 'Sun' (case insensitive) in them; if
you want to look for messages with either word, Solaris *or* Sun,
select the 'Any Words' option instead of the 'All Words' option.

Once you have found a message you are interested in, you may find
it useful to then go to the thread index (there are various links
on every page) to see a summary of all the messages in that thread.

The whole system is designed to be easy to browse and to find the
information you are seeking, and a big thanks is given to the
mhonarc and ht//dig opensource software that makes it possible, and
to Darren Nickerson for providing the hylafax.org server on which 
it runs.

That's the good news; the not so good news is that the automatic
updating of the archive is yet to be implemented; they stop, at
the moment, towards the end of February. Also attempts have been
made to clean up the archives, but 'nil' messages and spam are
probably present - please let me know directly if you come across
anything that shouldn't be there.

Have fun,
Phil Watkinson,
Boston, UK.