I see that, starting yesterday, the XFree86 development list is archived
here.  It looks like this is shaping up to be a useful and widely used
service.

The XFree86 pointer here was so new, that the URL direct to that
specific archive was not available.  It sent me to the mail-archive.com
search page with the key word "devel".

That gave me back 74 hits four of which were "devel".

Manifesting more clue than I usually do, I moved my mouse over the
different links and let my browser show me the URL's for the different
devel lists.  Sure enough, one had "xfree86.org" in it.

QUESTION:

Might it be possible and reasonable to show more than just the list name
in the search results?

If I were in more of a hurry, I would have forgotten to glance at the
URL display, and been frustrated that the four "devel" hits were not
obviously differentiated.

Would making the link string contain the whole list address, in this
case "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" be reasonable?  Or is that too easy for
web-crawling spam bots to utilize?  (The string is already in the URL,
after all.)  If so, maybe the '@' could be parsed out so search results
would show richer list names.

Thanks again for a good service.

-wdc



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