MR2 Mailing List Archive

Separated into Month

The following are separated into months.
2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
1999 1998 1997 1996 1995

Year Threaded

The entire year is threaded for the following URLs.
1994 1993 1992
1991 1990 1989

Notes

Mon Nov 3 19:27:43 PST 2003

I guess people don't use this much anymore... But if people are still around I just fixed the search stuff. It was still refering to my old website after you searched for something the url it generated was incorrect. I guess the rewrite rule on ucf was saving me before. Not sure when it got removed from ucf but check it out. In addition I have updated the ui a bit. However it does need some serious attention to be done properly. I've come along way since I originally did this setup. It's pretty hokey and it shows...

Sat Sep 21 12:39:41 PDT 2002

If you are still linked to http://www.ucf.ics.uci.edu please update the url to http://lexinator.com.

Tue Feb 19 02:05:58 PST 2002

Ok I somehow managed to delete the every so critical html file to allow searches. It's back. I did a quick test and it seems to be working. I'm not going to be around for about 2 years but i'll still check email every now and then... if it breaks again then it will be that way for some time.
By the way I have loaned my mr2 to a friend of mine for about a year. He's a very lucky man =]

Fri Oct 19 15:47:00 PDT 2001

Yes the site was down for a few days. The machines that were hosting the site have been upgraded to dual intel something or other (pentium 3?) 330mhz and with some fast disks. it should be notably faster to search the mailing list.

Mon Jan 29 22:12:05 PST 2001

I'm beginning to find this amusing, reading these little updates. I can't believe there is so much time that passes before I get around to fixing it. I believe it's approaching automation time. Everything appears to be in order and up to date. woohoo! I still see people are using it which is good. I went on a norcal rally not too long ago. here are the pics from it. fun little run with a county sheriff to harass us by giving one of our fellow mr2 a ticket for no front license plate. anything else I should throw in before I'm off... nope, ok see ya!

Sat Feb 26 15:30:49 PST 2000

Ok finally added in the 2000 year. it's been in the index just not selectable. I need to work my magic some more it's still somewhat interactive of a process.

Fri Nov 19 11:47:00 PST 1999

wow almost a year to the day. No one told me that it wasn't working. I know it happened fairly recently though since I just used it in the last few months. In any case I fixed it. have fun!

Fri Nov 20 23:57:25 PST 1998

Well that turned out easier and ended up being a better design than I original thought. I've added a new selection menu to the glimpse frontend. There are some minor bugs with it, but at least it's much easier to select what you really want to search.

Note, each "month" is a separate glimpse-search execution so the options apply only per month, not overall. Some other quirks, all means every month, including December 1998 which hasn't arrived. :)

I've found quite a few things that were broken with some of the diretories but things are much improved. I still have quite large gaps, so if anyone has articles for these months contact me.

Fri Nov 20 11:12:42 PST 1998

Ok doing some minor clean up. I'm just now looking into making the search work correctly. No one told me 1997 doesn't work at all! I'll be fixing that shortly, hopefully by the end of today. My testing area is 1997, so just ignore any weird buttons. :)

August 18, 1998

Ok I'm getting very close to the final product. I'm still working on the main page layout. The current page is not pretty, but it works and gets you to the fun stuff.

My hopes are to cut down on the amount of traffic on the list(i know it's just a dream), since we are now capable of pointing people to find answers to questions which are almost guaranteed to have been asked before.

It is also possible to use URLs directly to messages, so you can see some context with feedback and replies. I must note, there is no way to look for a certain digest number. I'm not sure if people really refer to message by this number. I can add a special header that keeps track if needed.

I'm currently HTML-izing new messages four times a day, 2am,6am,2pm,8pm PST. It takes about 15 minutes or so and cannot be searched until this is complete.

From now on, anywhere you are, at any time, if you have a web browser you can read the list!

It is now possible to find old articles based on keywords!! woohoo! but... right now I only have it searchable over a year. I'm planning to rearrange it, so you can search over a time range. i'll need to do some more work to get it to this stage.

One other thing I forgot to mention, I'm planning to use cookies so that the browser remembers which frame url you were in for the left index frame window, since it's difficult to get to the "middle". The only way is to click click click click.

lex-web@lexinator.com / Alexius M. Ludeman Own Little Page