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Index of Subjects Good evening, everyone. I just noticed something troubling with the new NatureNS archive, but also what I think is a new feature with it. It now appears possible to go to next or previous message in archive, which is great. Now for the troubling thing: Not all messages are listed in the archive, but only about 66% of them. I wonder if anyone else has noticed this. The most recent message at this time is #7778, but there are only 5216 messages actually listed, and that works out to about 66.1%. For example, all messages from #7759 through #7764 are missing - that is, they aren't displayed on the screen at: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/FNSN/MList/index.html Although the missing messages are still in the archive, and you can navigate to them via the "next message" and "previous message", you can't see them listed when you look at the index. Therefore, you'd have a real problem finding the message if you were searching for, say, "Amherst Point" or "Osprey", and the message you're looking for was one of the 2672 hidden ones. So as it stands now, navigating by thread is now possible, but searching by words of the subject line is now hit or miss, with a hit rate of 66%. Bob Lindsay Dartmouth Bob Lindsay wrote: > Good morning, all. > > I certainly agree that the archive is useful. > > About the search capabilities - I can see how to search on text in the > subject line, but I'm not so sure about a way to follow threads easily. > I expect we would have to be able to sort the list for that. > > However, one very useful feature is the ability to find out the year and > month of any post, and a sequential number, just by allowing your mouse > to hover over the lines of the archive page and watching the URLs appear > at the bottom of your browser window. This tells me, for instance, that > the first post in the archive was in March 2006: > > http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/FNSN/MList/200603/1.html > > and that the most recent one (before mine) is #7778: > > http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/FNSN/MList/200708/7778.html > > With what will surely be an expanding archive, this makes it fairly easy > to locate a post from a certain month. > > > Well done, Doug. > > Bob Lindsay > Dartmouth > > > > > Doug Linzey wrote: >> I've just received another query about an archive for NatureNS posts. >> We've been running a test archive for a while now. It's pretty >> primitive, with limited search capacity, but all the posts are there. >> Searches are pretty well restricted to subject line and thread. >> >> This is the official unveiling. Here's where to find it (note that case >> is important): >> <http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/FNSN/MList/>. >> >> I'm interested in your comments on the usefulness of this archive. >> >> Doug Linzey >> Administrator, NatureNS e-mail list >> >> >
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