Re: [Gossip] search experiment, feedback requested

2006-08-17 Thread Stephen Turner
ot;, so they're kind of semi-case-sensitive. Also, "Magic" and "MAGIC" don't highlight the terms they found in the search results page. -- Stephen Turner ___ Discussion list for The Mail Archive Gossip@jab.org http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip

Re: [Gossip] Reply button - why not cc: the list?

2005-06-28 Thread Stephen Turner
o send messages to the list on behalf of the user, wouldn't it? I never thought of that. But as a list owner, I'm not sure I'd want people being able to send messages to the list that way. It would defeat the subscription mechanism, and allow anyone (including spammers) to send an

Re: [Gossip] Reply button - why not cc: the list?

2005-06-28 Thread Stephen Turner
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Dan Temple wrote: I had imagined two buttons: "Reply" and "Reply List". I think that even with two buttons you'd make casual surfers (people referred from Google, say) believe they can reply to the list when they can't. -- Steph

Re: [Gossip] Reply button - why not cc: the list?

2005-06-28 Thread Stephen Turner
? Why do you assume that the person browsing the archive is subscribed to the list? Most people won't be able to post, and will just generate bounces. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "Low Priced Cambridge Clare College. Big selection

Re: [Gossip] any CSS experts in the house?

2004-10-08 Thread Stephen Turner
xpert, but I think I see the problem. adbox only floats right to the edge of msgcontent, and msgcontent is constrained to 62em width. Try letting msgcontent grow. You might want to make tSliceList have a fixed width instead. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie

Re: [Gossip] question - confirm/response

2004-07-01 Thread Stephen Turner
I agree with everything Heath said. Are there really any lists for which the admin can't add a subscriber manually? -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "Low Priced Cambridge Clare College. Big selection at eBay UK!" (Ad after Go

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Stephen Turner
Ummm, why can't you just require a list to sign up for the service before you accept any messages from it? Then most spam sent directly to m-a's inbox would be automatically ignored. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "The questi

Re: [Gossip] today at Mail-Archive...

2003-10-12 Thread Stephen Turner
but even then there may be robots which don't identify themselves. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether

Re: [Gossip] Survey: Google AdSense on Mail-Archive?

2003-07-16 Thread Stephen Turner
eople directly, rather than trying to interpret their written rules? -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." (Edsger W. Dij

Re: [Gossip] Survey: Google AdSense on Mail-Archive?

2003-07-14 Thread Stephen Turner
If they were ignored, he wouldn't make money. You only get revenue for clicks. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submar

Re: [Gossip] Survey: Google AdSense on Mail-Archive?

2003-07-14 Thread Stephen Turner
site like yours, with a lot of page views, to make money. Would you put them on the individual messages too? I wouldn't object to that on my list, but I could envisage some people might object. Of course, you might choose to ignore those people... -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://h

Re: [Gossip] RE: do people use the confirmation archive?

2003-02-20 Thread Stephen Turner
> form. > Usually the list administrator can subscribe people directly. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a s

Re: [Gossip] Problem with OPERATION Keyword in ASN.1

2003-02-14 Thread Stephen Turner
ople who are posting these questions haven't worked out that the information they've googled for wasn't provided by "mail-archive". -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "The question of whether a computer can think is no m

Re: [Gossip] Problem with OPERATION Keyword in ASN.1

2003-02-14 Thread Stephen Turner
I'm beginning to think that there's a web page somewhere that says "If you have any problems at all to do with any aspect of computing, just send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED]". :-) -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "The quest

Re: [Gossip] mail not archiving?

2002-10-22 Thread Stephen Turner
onicle.com/biznews/1018story2_business.shtml > http://chappie.stanford.edu/~snitch/game/missionstatement.html > Cool. Sounds like you've been having a fun time! -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "Reserve your 2 hour delivery time, which means you'

Re: [Gossip] experiment: spamcop blocklist

2002-03-02 Thread Stephen Turner
By the way, I use spamassassin on my personal box, and I find it has an insignificant number of false positives, and a small number of false negatives. It does seem to use a bit of CPU though, so it may be too heavy a load to use with the amount of traffic Mail Archive is getting. -- Stephen

[Gossip] Wishlist: Reply-To button

2002-02-28 Thread Stephen Turner
er to reply to the wrong place. It would be nice if the reply-to button respected the Reply-To header on the mail: or alternatively if there was a reply-to list button as well as a reply-to sender button. Thanks, -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ &qu

Re: [Gossip] downtime

2002-02-06 Thread Stephen Turner
ce message dated "Wed Jan 23 16:43:44 PST 2002". Did you put a short Time To Live on the temporary address? If not, I _think_ that there's not much you can do, because that address will stay cached until the TTL expires. But I'm not DNS expert either. -- Stephen Turner, Cambrid

Re: [Gossip] fix problems day

2001-11-12 Thread Stephen Turner
er, thanks very much for your work, Jeff. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01 ___ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip

Re: [Gossip] Archival of turbine-dev@jakarta.apache.org and turbine-user@jakarta.apache.org

2001-05-03 Thread Stephen Turner
es too small to show up on the radar screens > of folks like Google I wonder if they would be more interested now they've got the Usenet stuff working. Probably not, but it might be worth asking... -- Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/ Statistical

Re: [Gossip] spam problems

2000-12-07 Thread Stephen Turner
lly I would be tempted to turn on the more gentle one first. Whichever it is. :) -- Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/ Statistical Laboratory, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, England "The Hubble Space Telescope has shut itself down, preventing astronom

Re: [Gossip] software speedup

2000-11-27 Thread Stephen Turner
Jeff, A note from me, but I'm sure it's on behalf of all of us too, to say thank you for your continued hard work on the archives. > Nov 26 17:22:12 zamboni mailme: Now throwing back sea turtles. Sea turtles? -- Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/

Re: [Gossip] status, mail-archive

2000-10-30 Thread Stephen Turner
WW Statystyki WWW Program uruchomiony: Pon, 30 Nie 2000 13:54. ... ========== You might find this idea useful. -- Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/ Statistical Laboratory, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, England

[Gossip] Deleting messages?

2000-09-27 Thread Stephen Turner
om the list; you can figure out the rest), [EMAIL PROTECTED] got flooded over the weekend with messages from one Brian Staubach. -- Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/ Statistical Laboratory, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, England "The new operatin

Re: [Gossip] beta: seach for a list

2000-05-30 Thread Stephen Turner
; The URL is http://www.mail-archive.com/index.php3 > Seems good. But how about also dividing the list of lists into 26 by initial letter? -- Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/ Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, C

Re: [Gossip] link

2000-04-19 Thread Stephen Turner
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > > >What's the link to the French localization? I got a 404 msg. > > Sorry, try again. http://www.mail-archive.com/experiment > Cool, it's translated all the messages as well. How does it do that? :) -- Steph