Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am currently not subscribed to debian-user simply because I don't >have the disk space to handle all the messages. So what I do is read >it via the archives. The problem is that there is a day or two lag >between a message being sent and it appearing in the archive. This >delay makes interactive use of the list difficult. > >The thought I had was: why not make the archive much more responsive? >Why not update it every few minutes? Now perhaps there are good >reasons why this is not possible???? But I would have thought it >wouldn't be too hard.
Please suggest this somewhere like debian-www, where there are people who can do something about it, unlike here. :) I suspect that it's just about possible if you tweak the tools used to do it a bit; otherwise threading is a major overhead. (Note that every message may have to have its individual HTML document rewritten when the threading changes, due to having links to followups and references and so on.) >Surely a web based interface to the list is a more efficient way to go >in any case? Eww. No. Whatever else HTTP may be, it's not efficient compared to mail. Convenient for some, maybe - but I personally couldn't stand to use the Debian mailing lists if a web interface were the only one available, and I suspect a fair proportion of developers feel the same. (I gateway the Debian lists to local newsgroups. Very nice, stunningly convenient.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
