Re: [infobot] unsubscribing?

[David A. D. <ha...@gn...>]

> SF has added searching of email lists since I last looked. They will also 
> import old email archives. Do you have mbox format archives for the list? 
> I'll work towards getting the complete archives up on SF. Then I'll feel 
> more comfortable actually moving to the new list. Let's live with the 
> current dual list mess for a few more days. Sound ok?

 	My main beef with the way SF manages their mailing lists, is that 
they don't provide a way to download the list archives for a certain month 
or for a full period. They're using this hacked-up Mailman interface in an 
effort to simply get users to subscribe, but they don't really provide any 
useful mailing list tools that go with that Mailman instance.

 	I've been complaining about this to them for about 3 years, and they 
don't seem to want to change it. If the lists move to SF.net exclusively, I 
think I'll be joining the ranks of those who unsubscribe as well. It just 
isn't a useful environment anymore... they keep crippling things.

 	The other thing, which you mention, and I still can't find.. is the 
ability to search the lists using rich sets of keywords, regexen, and 
boolean targets. This is a huge crippling chasm in their infrastructure (and 
also one thing I've been ranting about for years with them). They've just 
recently added Yahoo! search, but it doesn't really work as well as some of 
the other generic search algorithms I've seen and used personally.

 	Just my 0.02 euros on the matter.

d.