New Mailing-List Archive

[David Jeske <jeske@...>]

It used to be that the most popular mailing list archive was
hypermail, and good list archives were hard to find. These days, any
good mailing list has at least two different browsable archives. As
Lua is at the forefront of programming languages, it makes sense for
it to be at the forefront of mailing list archives. That is why I'm
pleased to announce a new mailing list archive, bringing the grand Lua
total to four. :)

  http://archive.neotonic.com/archive/lua-l

Compared to the existing archives:

  http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/
  http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.comp.lang.lua.general
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lua-l/

It has a few unique features:

1) Top-poster count total/bymonth, with author search.

2) It tracks which posts you've read on the server side. This means
   you can use it from a machine at home and one at work to read the
   group and you'll know which posts you've already read. It also
   means that it knows which posts you've read no matter which view
   you are looking at them in.

3) It is more aggressive about wrapping to avoid problems like this:

   http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2003-03/msg00002.html

   http://archive.neotonic.com/archive/lua-l/msg/11866

4) It does not "convert" the archives to HTML so it's easy to
   (a) re-theme the pages, or (b) improve the message rendering.

If you read on the web, try it out and see what you think.

-- 
David Jeske (N9LCA) + http://www.chat.net/~jeske/ + jeske@chat.net