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