Re: New mailing list searchable archives

Hi Marco and other readers! I have seen you added this feature to the phpa site, and found it valuable. In fact this archive seems to have more features then the MARC archives we link to. I vote +1 for publishing a news item, and putting a link onto the mailing-lists page pointing to your archives. I would also like to suggest replacing the MARC links with links to this archive if nobody is against it (or provide two links, like it is in the newsgrop column now). Goba Marco Tabini wrote:

Hello, A few days back we published a complete archive of all the PHP mailing lists from their inception. I built the archive in my spare time because I couldn't seem to make the MARC one work too well for my needs, and also because I thought a few more features could be added to it to make it more efficient. The archive includes a number of "neat" features, like automatic threading, full-text search, keyword highlighting and quoted-text indentation and coloring. We keep this up-to-date hourly, and we have taken whatever steps we could to protect the system from e-mail address harvesting (while still making the links workable from a normal browser). You can find it at http://www.phparch.com/mailinglists. I sent an e-mail to php.general a couple of days ago, and the members of the list seem to also think that the archive works well and could be a valuable resource--here's the discussion thread (of course, from the archive itself!): http://www.phparch.com/mailinglists/msg.php?a=723335 I was wondering if you think this would warrant a small news item on php.net, something like this: ====snip==== New Searchable php.net Mailing List Archives <a href="http://www.phparch.com/mailinglists">A complete <i>searchable</i> archive</a> of all the php.net mailing lists is now available. The archive is updated hourly and provides features, such as full-text search, automatic message threading, keyword highlighting and quoted text colouring, that should make it easier to find relevant information in the lists. ====snip==== Also, I was wondering whether perhaps you could add a link to the archive in the php.net mailing list page (http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php). Thanks for your help! Cheers, Marco