Re: [Caml-list] google groups list archive

[Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>]

Thinking about it a bit more, I think most of my current
dissatisfaction with the current archive would go away if it was
indexed well-enough by external search engines. Currently a Google
search for "site:http://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list llvm
systemz" does not return any result, and it could be caused by the
fact that

  https://sympa.inria.fr/robots.txt

is

  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /

which asks web-indexing robots not to visit the website.

Would it be possible to change that setting?

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Gabriel Scherer
<gabriel.scherer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> There's always https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list
>> (full archives since 09/1992, yeah!)
>
> This archive is excellent in term of content, but it is an absolute
> pain to use as an interface. My workflow to refer someone to a
> mailing-list conversation I remember is to search for it in my
> mailbox, find the posting date, and then navigate the archive from
> this date.
>
> The search feature in particular is completely unusable. For example I
> recently wanted to refer to an old message of mine about the various
> LLVM port, written in the thread about SystemZ. I find it absolutely
> impossible to find this thread by searching for either LLVM or SystemZ
> through the archive interface.
>
> I have no idea who can tweak the list settings and whether this is
> even possible (I somehow doubt that the search ability can be made to
> work), but here is a minor change that would already considerably
> improve the usability of the archive:
>   getting rid of the paging of the month's threads
> For example, august 2015 mailing-list threads are split between 9
> pages which makes them unnecessarily painful to navigate.
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr> wrote:
>> On 12/09/15 18:59, Ashish Agarwal wrote:
>>> It was also mentioned that GMANE has a good archive [1], so I'll go ahead
>>> and link to that from ocaml.org <http://ocaml.org>.
>>> [1] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org/issues/699#issuecomment-139484115
>>
>> It seems to have the same problem of messages expiring after 2 weeks.
>>
>> There's always https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list
>> (full archives since 09/1992, yeah!)
>>
>> - Xavier Leroy
>>
>>
>>
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