Re: Discourse

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:

> Andrew,
>
>
> thanks for your long reponse.  I have to correct two of your
> statements:
>
>> But (contrary to a false statement I made about import into
>> Discourse) you can't import mailbox format lists into Discourse
>> simply, because, for example, the creation of users from 25 years
>> ago who most probably no longer have the same email addresses is
>> very problematic for various reasons.
>
> It's really a pity that such a conversion is not supported, since it
> would be extremely helpful in the long run.  However, e-mail addresses
> shouldn't be exposed in the web interface (the already existing e-mail
> list archive doesn't do that either).  The construction of threads
> rather relies on the 'In-Reply-To:' and 'References:' fields, AFAIK.

All months in the archive are downloadable in mbox format, of course
containing all the Email addresses.  I don't think this would escape the
notice of scraping tools though there may be some limits braking bulk
downloads.

>> Maybe the history of bugs from ten versions ago is not that
>> important to have instantly online.
>
> It's not the 'history of bugs' that counts – we have a bug tracker for
> that.  It's rather the collected wisdom of tips and tricks, mainly
> related to Scheme wizardry, that is so important to look up for both
> users and developers.

The indexing is lacklustre, to say the least.  Nevertheless, I am
occasionally surprised by people being able to find past utterings of
mine to rub my nose in.

-- 
David Kastrup