Archive on internet, WWW, archive browsing, mail headers

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Hi all,

I was able to connect to http://soils.ecn.purdue.edu/~mccauley/grassu/

and i am glad to see this archive. It will help a lot for people to solve
problems that were putted on the list already before. But if we want this
tool becoming very helpfull i have some important remarks.

1) Main point (as one every users list) is putting in your mail header a
clear subject. Please fill in there the most important keyword. f.i.
mention always the module in Grass with which you have problems and try to
use the Grass "language" for the subjects.

2) Indeed as other people already mentioned avoid to subscribe,
unsubscribe, ping and so on on grassu-list@max.cecer.army.mil but use for
that grassu-request@max.cecer.army.mil.

I know it is hard not to have these messages on the list but at least we
can give it a try. And in this way the cleaning of this list should be
much more easy. Any case, I do not remember who or which group takes care
of this, i am greatfull to see this on the web! Thanks

    Bart

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Bart Cosyn (bcosyn@crs4.it) writes on 18 Jan 95:

I was able to connect to http://soils.ecn.purdue.edu/~mccauley/grassu/

and i am glad to see this archive. It will help a lot for people to solve
problems that were putted on the list already before. But if we want this
tool becoming very helpfull i have some important remarks.

[excellent comments about Subject lines and annoying
"service" messages deleted]

much more easy. Any case, I do not remember who or which group takes care
of this, i am greatfull to see this on the web! Thanks

I believe that it's Russ Houghland that receives mail from
grass-lists-owner@moon, but I could be wrong. I did the WWW archiving
in hypermail - noone at CERL at had anything to do with it.

Let me reiterate: I DID THIS ONLY AS A DEMO. I was really hoping that
a few folks would volunteer to provide this service to the rest of
us (one per continent would be good, with maybe an extra one in the UK).

The WWW/hypermail archive seems to be pretty popular (from looking at
the access log). It is super-simple to set up, but I don't have the
20-30 MB or so that it would take to process all of the old archives
and keep adding messages on a daily basis. It would also require
setting up a dummy account to receive mail (for which I do not have
authorization). I would be more than willing to provide technical
assistance to anyone wishing to offer this service.

--Darrell