RangerG Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 I'm talking about the archive here: https://pairlist5.pair.net/pipermail/coco/ There is great material here and I am a subscriber for new content. But, is there anyway to search the back digests? Right now they are only searchable by month. Thanks for any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 I don't think so, but I know when I've done a general google search on coco subjects, many times I'll get a hit directly from the coco mailing list. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 I think all the fans of the CoCo mailing list subscribe to it and search through messages on their computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted June 8, 2015 Author Share Posted June 8, 2015 I guess I'm doing all I can then. Google does pick up a lot from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linville Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 You can download each month's worth of messages from the link provided at the top of this thread. The download is in a GZIP'ed file in MBOX format. One uncompressed, this format is digestable by any number of mail clients. You should be able to script the download fairly simply, rather than having to click and save each month's tarball. Anyway, once you extract all the archives locally they can be searched fairly simply. It would be nice if the Mailman archiver did things a bit differently, but at least everything is there back to 2003. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 The site is just so archaic I wonder why it's used at all. It's like using Geocities in 2015. The facebook group is great though and should be a model for the coco group going forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKRetrogamer Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Could be worse. Could be like the forum/comments section of coco3.com. I know we're dealing with 30 year old tech but does the community have to use similarly archaic methods of communication to reach out to each other? What's the next technological leap in the Coco-related communication likely to be? CB Radio? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted June 16, 2015 Author Share Posted June 16, 2015 That's an idea, I could download them on a flash-drive and then they would be searchable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linville Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 You guys are free to use whatever you like -- I guess I just don't see how clicking around a bunch of different pages on multiple sites is somehow an improvement over opening my email client and looking in the coco folder. Of course, if you are using a web browser to read an email list then I can see your confusion... :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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