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CSuite Workshop - January 29, 1997
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Agenda:
* Mailing-List Archives
* Development in Progress
* Development Ideas
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Mailing-List Archives
As planned, we began a discussion of the Chebucto Mailing-List
Archives system.
The current strategy uses a script as a subscriber to the mailing
list, which changes to the directory specified, and passes the message
to a script called arch2html, which indexes the article based on its
Subject thread, and adds a header and footer which include html links
to previous and next articles in both chronological order of the list,
and order in the subject thread as well as a mailto link to the
writer. End of thread and end of archive are handled. Recently the
archives have been placed in monthly sections, and often relocated to
other areas, typically IP areas.
The IP committee has requested we look at the feasibility of a tool to
extract inappropriate posts from the archives, and segregate an
archive into two or more separate archives. Other lists have been
interested in this from time to time.
Needs for Archives
* Generate FAQ
* Retrieve historical data
* Overview of activity of a group/list
* Review correspondence
Possible Strategies
* Substitute "Message Deleted" for the body of the Message to be
removed, leaving the links in place. Need special editing that
does not reset permissions on "end of thread" items, as it may
break script.
* Delete the message and rebuild the indexing.
* Parse links and bridge them
* Move deleted items to private archive
* Have list-moderators bounce messages to archive as appropriate,
rather than passing every message sent by list.
* Redo user interface and display, with all this in mind
Final Question
How important is this task at this time?
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Development in Progress
Bulk-mail
Hit a bug :(
Passwd
Will not compile
Waiting for info from passwd maintainers
Majordomo
Integrating in distribution
Zmailer
Dumps core
David Trueman is working on it :)
Pine
Translation in progress
Apache
Running as main httpd on csuite.chebucto.ns.ca
Quota
Installed on Linux machines
Not tested
Note: guest quota is used as "template" for user setup. Since
guest has no file-saving options, this is not a problem.
Note: need to document / suggest how to define partition sizes
so that quotas work effectively
Start Page
Seeking input
Report next week
Manual
Review copies were printed and distributed by Joe Baker and
Doug Rigby at last week's Internet show. A log of reviewers was
to be kept.
Some feedback has been coming in to helpdoc mailing list.
David Potter will follow up with Tony, Joe and Doug.
Help Desk
makesub has been run on the HelpDesk tree, and the documents
loaded in the repository, so all should be substituted and
editable by the HelpDoc team.
David Potter will check for incomplete substitutions and other
problems.
VCN host-names
The post office has received reports of change in VCN taking
effect after a long time (12 hours) or never (weeks).
Explanation unknown.
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Development Ideas
For Translation
Registration Scripts
Provide a language choice option early in process.
Switch to appropriate language version of Registration
Process.
Set Lynx language preference in user account creation.
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Next Workshop February 5, 1997
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Submitted by Ed Dyer aa146@chebucto.ns.ca
Workshop Coordinator David J Murdoch djm@chebucto.ns.ca
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