[MITgcm-support] threads

[Martin Losch]

Thanks Ed,

it's not that important, so no need for you to do anything. I was just 
wondering if I was missing an important (hidden, undocumented?) feature 
(o:

Martin

On Monday, May 3, 2004, at 04:49 PM, Ed Hill wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 07:57, Martin Losch wrote:
>> Ed,
>>
>> stupid question by a person very unfamiliar with mailing lists: It's
>> nice to be able to follow threads, so you can recap old discussions.
>> But I have the impression, that the length of a thread is subject to
>> date. So if there's a thread extending over more than one calendar
>> month, it appears to be cut and a new thread is started in the new
>> month. Is it possible to follow threads beyond the 30th/31st of a 
>> month?
>
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> Yes, I think thats only a limitation of the mailman/pipermail setup for
> viewing the messages through the web.  Two ways around it are:
>
>  1) Go to
>       http://dev.mitgcm.org/pipermail/mitgcm-support/
>     and download the *entire* archive in the "mbox" format
>     and then let your local MUA (your "email reader", which
>     ever one you use) take care of sorting out the threads
>
>  2) use our htdig-based search facility:
>       http://mitgcm.org/search.html
>     to find all the emails that match the pattern you want
>
> And if it helps, I'll run the htdig indexer more than once a week so
> that the search info will never be more than a couple of days old.
>
> Ed
>
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