So the old mailing list archive URLs are broken, so all of the links to the mailing lists that google or whatever turn up are broken. Anyway we could get the old URLs working again? Broken links are always frustrating... It could probably be done with mod_rewrite rule.
.hc
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Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
So the old mailing list archive URLs are broken, so all of the links to the mailing lists that google or whatever turn up are broken. Anyway we could get the old URLs working again? Broken links are always frustrating... It could probably be done with mod_rewrite rule.
i do not think that mod_rewrite can help us. the base-url has not changed but the individual files have been renamed!
what happened: a) i have finally migrated the old listman archives to mailman. mails used to be two or three times in the archives (because of re-building the archives) which took quite some disk-space on our servers. (the pd-list archive alone without any duplicates takes about 250MB)); furthermore there is a new search-engine that is really fast. so, for convenience reasons, the archives have been re-indexed.
b) i have received emails of subscribers who complained that their email-address is visible in plain-text on the archives. this i consider a real privacy problem. therefore a better email hiding algorithm is now used and i have (again) rebuilt the archives.
what we could do is direct the 404 to the search-engine of the archive. would this be ok ?
mfg.asd.r IOhannes
Hallo, IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
what we could do is direct the 404 to the search-engine of the archive. would this be ok ?
I think, this or a rewrite to the new main list archive page would be appropriate.
(BTW: Excuse my ignorance: Where is the new archive?)
Ciao
Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
I think, this or a rewrite to the new main list archive page would be appropriate.
(BTW: Excuse my ignorance: Where is the new archive?)
as i have stated before: the archive-url has not changed at all !
please have a look at:
http://iem.at/mailinglists/pd-list/
mfg.a.sdr IOhannes
Hallo, IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Frank Barknecht wrote:
I think, this or a rewrite to the new main list archive page would be appropriate.
(BTW: Excuse my ignorance: Where is the new archive?)
as i have stated before: the archive-url has not changed at all !
Urgh, ahem, well then a link to the main list archive page wouldn't be such as appropriate. ;)
Ciao
Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
what we could do is direct the 404 to the search-engine of the archive. would this be ok ?
I think, this or a rewrite to the new main list archive page would be appropriate.
does the new 404 look ok ? http://iem.at/mailinglists/pd-list/2004-7/hahah.html
mfg.asd.asd IOhannes
Hallo, IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
does the new 404 look ok ? http://iem.at/mailinglists/pd-list/2004-7/hahah.html
Yes, looks fine. I like simplicity. (Minor spelling correction: I think, the space at "... find !" should go away.)
Ciao
On Sep 14, 2004, at 11:59 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
what we could do is direct the 404 to the search-engine of the archive. would this be ok ?
I think, this or a rewrite to the new main list archive page would be appropriate.
does the new 404 look ok ? http://iem.at/mailinglists/pd-list/2004-7/hahah.html
Tough problem to solve, that will work well enough I think. I think we'll be better off in the end, once google catches on ;).
.hc
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Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Tough problem to solve, that will work well enough I think. I think we'll be better off in the end, once google catches on ;).
Especially as Google was just a helper because the old search was suboptimal. Regarding the new search, it would be great, if it was possible to set this up, so that the "List Archive" results are omited. Currently a search for e.g. "filter" gives this as first results:
1. The PD-list 2003-08 Archive by Thread (score: 85) Author: unknown Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:06:15 2003-08 Archives by Thread Messages sorted by: [ subject ] [ author ] [ date ] More info on this list... Starting: Fri Aug 1 00:05:21 2003 Ending: Sun Aug 31 22:35:31 2003 Messages: 449 [PD] ID pro http://iem.at/mailinglists/pd-list/2003-08/index.html (71,710 bytes)
2. The PD-list 2003-08 Archive by Thread (score: 85) Author: unknown Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:06:15 2003-08 Archives by Thread Messages sorted by: [ subject ] [ author ] [ date ] More info on this list... Starting: Fri Aug 1 00:05:21 2003 Ending: Sun Aug 31 22:35:31 2003 Messages: 449 [PD] ID pro http://iem.at/mailinglists/pd-list/2003-08/thread.html (71,710 bytes)
3. The PD-list 2003-08 Archive by Author (score: 85) Author: unknown Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:06:13 2003-08 Archives by Author Messages sorted by: [ thread ] [ subject ] [ date ] More info on this list... Starting: Fri Aug 1 00:05:21 2003 Ending: Sun Aug 31 22:35:31 2003 Messages: 449 [PD] serial http://iem.at/mailinglists/pd-list/2003-08/author.html (51,976 bytes)
And so on. Clicking one leads to a long list of messages. The actually interesting messages on filters are way below. I would suggest to try to not search the overview pages at all, if this is possible.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
suboptimal. Regarding the new search, it would be great, if it was possible to set this up, so that the "List Archive" results are omited. Currently a search for e.g. "filter" gives this as first results:
- The PD-list 2003-08 Archive by Thread (score: 85) Author: unknown Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:06:15 2003-08 Archives by Thread Messages sorted by: [ subject ] [ author ] [ date ] More info on this list... Starting: Fri Aug 1 00:05:21 2003 Ending: Sun Aug 31 22:35:31 2003 Messages: 449 [PD] ID pro http://iem.at/mailinglists/pd-list/2003-08/index.html (71,710 bytes)
And so on. Clicking one leads to a long list of messages. The actually interesting messages on filters are way below. I would suggest to try to not search the overview pages at all, if this is possible.
done
mfg.asdr IOhannes
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