On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 06:11:27PM -0800, Guy Maor wrote: > I'd like to give away maintainership of the web list archiving and > searching. I originally wrote the scripts but don't have time to > maintain or enhance them. > > Apart from some very minor maintainance, the major project is building > a good free search engine for mhonarc-based lists, something with as > good a front end as dejanews. If this sounds interesting to you, and > you're familiar enough with perl to maintain the existing scripts, and > have some spare time of course, reply to me.
maybe it would be worthwhile asking the people who run MARC if we could have a copy of their scripts for our list archives. it's about the best web-based list archiving system i've seen. if you haven't seen it, it's at http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/ also, http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?q=about has a a fair bit of information about it but doesn't mention whether the software is available and, if so, under what license. they sound like they're free-software advocates so they may be willing to license it under the GPL or something. it doesn't hurt to ask, anyway :) btw, they already archive debian-announce, debian-user, debian-devel, and debian-changes. i'm tempted to volunteer to help out with the lists archiving myself but don't think i have enough free time to do it. craig -- craig sanders
