[Cz-L] Archives Now On Line (I think) (fwd)

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Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:41 EDT
From: jerome schatten <romers_at_shaw.ca>
To: czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu
Subject: [Cz-L] Archives Now On Line (I think)

Greetings Czernowitzers:

The list archives for 2002, 2003, 2004 and fairly up to date 2005 are now on
the website. Each year is indexed by thread, author, subject and date. Just
go to http://members.shaw.ca/czernowitz/ and look for 'Cz-L Archives' in
the menu. You might have to hit your refresh button a few times to make this
new menu item appear.

That said, I had huge problems trying to get the posts that were generated
in HTML to make sense. This is the same problem that those receiving the
digest form complained about in the past: pages and pages of HTML garbage
obscuring the text. I did write a filter to try and get rid of enough the
HTML to make the message readable, albeit with varying degrees of success.
Some were so bad and had become so large (what should have been about a 5 K
message was rendered fifty times larger in some cases and just had to be
deleted.

So, there's a lesson here: Set your mail programme to send messages only in
plain text. Since the list became moderated, Bruce has been stripping the
HTML portion of the message by hand, and that's why the 2004 and 2005 stuff
looks so much better than the earlier years. We could help the listmeister
and archivar by not sending HTML posts. If you need help in setting up your
mail programme, write to me.

There is no search engine as such on the server at present; that is, it
doesn't work like Google, so you can't look for things like 'Jerome's famous
latkes' unless it's in the title. You should however be able to get to what
you want by choosing to sort by what's appropriate for your needs: thread,
author, subject or date.

To protect your privacy, the '@' in all email addresses has been changed to
_at_ , so you will have to change that back if you want to respond to an
archived post. The Reply-To field in the message has the correct (at that
time) email address but with the _at_ .

I hope you find the archives useful.

Best,
jerome
Received on 2005-05-30 18:55:50