[Noisebridge-discuss] Yearly instead of Monthly mailing list archives?

[Joel Jaeggli]

Lee Sonko wrote:
> The Noisebridge mailing list archives currently are viewable as monthly
> archive files  IE:
> https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/
> 
> Would it be useful if these archive files were quarterly or yearly? This
> would reduce the number of files one has to manually download and search
> thru to find a particular email from the past.

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=drama&as_sitesearch=https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/

> If set to yearly, archive zip files would be a still very manageable 5
> megabytes each or so.
> 
> Downside: It would also break any current static links to emails (note the
> word "December" in the link name)
> IE:
> https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2009-December/0106
> 54.html
> 
> Upside/Downside: A yearly archives pages would contain about 12,000 messages
> instead of 1,000 messages. I think it's an upside.
> IE:
> https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2009-August/date.h
> tml
> 
> 
> 
> It's always bugged me that the default archive packaging style for Mailman
> is monthly.
> 
> 
> If no one cares one way or the other, it should probably just stay as it
> is... Inertia isn't all bad.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> For lower volume mailing lists, I think the default should certainly be to
> have yearly archives. It's a bother to click through lots of months of low
> traffic to find what you're looking for IE:
> https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/german/
> 
> 
> 
> Lee
> 
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