Re[2]: [Xitami] PHP_SELF?
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
xitami@lists.xitami.org
Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:46:43 +0100
In message <1731806340.20030722153811@myrealbox.com> jwayne writes:
> <RANT_ON>
>
> If anyone from Xitami monitors this list, please note: why isn't the
> lists.xitami.org link referenced on the support page on the .com site? And why
> isn't the fact that there _are_ archives mentioned on the "Welcome" email from
> this list? Why is it necessary to archive full headers, which accounts for the
> vast majority of the 16 meg archive size? And most unforgiveable of all: why
> aren't the archives searchable??? Doing text searches and wading through headers
> and quoted text and html messages - rather than being able to view messages by
> threads - is enormously inefficient.
>
> </RANT_OFF>
I agree; it's also made worse by those that quote the entirety of all
earlier posts to the thread, usually bottom-quoting as well. Have you
ever read <http://www.plig.net/nnq/nquote.html>, which is just as
relevant to a mailing list as it is to newsgroups?
--
Brian {Hamilton Kelly} bhk@dsl.co.uk
"We can no longer stand apart from Europe if we would. Yet we are
untrained to mix with our neighbours, or even talk to them".
George Macaulay Trevelyan, 1919