Re: [ba-ohs-talk] New backlink metadata; mhpurple v0.2 released
Eugene Eric Kim <eekim@eekim.com> writes: (01)
% > Speaking of cross listed.... Since I am new to these
% > ba-X-talk lists, I wonder... Are they being archived? (02)
% http://www.bootstrap.org/lists/ (03)
% Archived with purple numbers. (04)
Great. (05)
% > If so... What would it take for the mail list manager
% > to tag the message with an archive URL for the threads?
% >
% > If it did, then my mail would be able to automatically
% > click into the archive of the discussion. (06)
% This is something we discussed many moons ago when we were having regular
% meetings at SRI. In short, it's only doable if the mailing list manager
% is well-integrated with the mail archiving program. That is the case with
% Mailman, but not with Majordomo/MHonArc, which is what we're using right
% now. (07)
Please go into majordomo's config.
And in it set the "Footer" to be a reference to the list: (08)
http://www.bootstrap.org/lists/ba-ohs-talk/0203/dates.html (09)
It would be better if you could set it to: (010)
http://www.bootstrap.org/lists/ba-ohs-talk/current/dates.html (011)
To do that, you would need to update the link with a cron job. (012)
That is not all the way there, but it is a step forward. (013)
I will think about how to integrate majordomo closer. (014)
% > What do we as a ba-X-talk group need to do in order
% > to utilize hyperlinked mail as a basic assumption to
% > our conversations? (015)
% > IE, what changes to our behavior, mail programs, list serve
% > programs would we need to make such that each message
% > had links and references to the others in the conversation
% > and each of us to have easy access to them from our
% > disparate mail reading programs? (016)
% Excellent questions. I have a similar setup as you do; accessing links
% from e-mail is a matter of control clicking the link. I use Pine running
% in a Gnome terminal, with Mozilla as my web browser. I'm curious to hear
% what other people's thoughts on this are. (017)
% There are certainly conventions that we can adopt as a group to improve
% the quality of our archives and discourse. For instance, if we are
% proposing links of interest, as many people often do, we could submit them
% in the form of an RDF-ish template. These could be extracted and used to
% build a portal -- Yahoo-style, blog-style, the possibilities are endless
% -- automatically. (018)
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