[Cuis-dev] Merging the mailing list archives and make them searchable, possible?

[Ezequiel Birman]

Hi Hannes

As far as I know Thunderbird is only a mail (and maybe nntp) client, it
won't download the archives. Please let me know if I'm wrong.

The idea is to facilitate a *comprehensive* search experience. Right now as
you say, we can google search the original mailing list and the current,
but not the mbox provided in the repository, which is zipped, so it is not
indexed by GitHub.

-- 
Eze

On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 at 21:26, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Eze
>
> As you have been using Google mail I assume you are aware that you might
> just use the Google mail search function.
>
> But a useful alternative is to use e.g. the Thunderbird main client. It
> downloads all the mails and thus makes the mail archive accessible for
> searching offline. With a nice graphical navigation system for the time
> line.
>
> And it seems that AI tools "harvest" the Cuis mailing list also and thus
> provide sometimes quite some insightful answers. (However sometimes they
> are wrong as they seem also to take code examples from Squeak or Pharo to
> produce answers, i.e. sometimes classes are mentioned which are not in Cuis)
>
> --Hannes
> On 10/03/2025 7:06 pm, Ezequiel Birman via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I added a note
> <https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/wiki/Meta-Documentation#todo-merge-the-mailling-lists-archives>
> in the wiki asking the same. The wiki note has more details about the time
> spanned by each list.
>
> It looks like it should be possible but requires some work...
> <https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/hyperkitty/en/latest/development.html#importing-the-current-archives>
>
> Asking in case there is a mailman wizard reading.
> --
> Eze
>
>
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