Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 21:51:03 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: David Langford <langfod@dihelix.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cool Web page interface to mail + search engine? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970323214749.9906A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <199703232316.PAA08073@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > I will take a look at it again. The last time that I peek at Hypermail > it was poorly supported. And you are right a hypermail interface > is desperately needed so we are going to experiment with the multimedia > mailing and will report back to the list our findings I experimented with hypermail on the -questions archive. It worked okay, but hypermail dumped core fairly often. Apparently, there are some patches to make it work better. Also, I'm not sure about the licensing anymore - I'll go and check; I also heard about a "hypermail" pro or something.. If you want to see what it looks like, try http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark/FreeBSD and follow the link at the bottom of the page. I forgot to tell it to use a fixed-width font, otherwise it's a good setup. Now if it only worked all the time :-) -Mark P.S. I've tried glimpse for searching, but I found htDigg (on the site above) better overall. It was easier to use at least. I'm also looking into the "Lwgate" software.. > > > Tnks! > Amancio > > >From The Desk Of "David Langford" : > > Amancio Hasty > > > > > >Hi, > > > > > >I am looking around for a cgi script or Java program to help us organize > > >the multimedia mailing list. > > > > To be honest I have always thought that a hypemail interface to the FreeBSD > > mail archives would be more usefull that the current search engine..... > > > > Most of the time (for me) that subjects lines are usefull enough for searches > > and (usaually) that articels back in 1995 dont really pertain to what I had > > been looking for even though they filter to the top. > > > > I thought you had looked at glipse once before? How was that? > > > > -David Langford > > langfod@dihelix.com > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GCS/O d- s+ a-- C++ UB+++$ P+ L- E--- W++ N+ K- w++(---) O- M- !V PS+ PE Y++ PGP+ t !5 X+ R- tv b++ DI+ D++ G+ e+(*) h--- r++ y+(+++) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Typically, I don't use JAVA -- I think that strong typing is for weak minds (and lazy compiler/interpreter writers)." -- Terry Lambert
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