[Gate-users] best way to search the archives

[David Boersma]

Hi Larissa,

We have been discussing this issue in the Steering Committee very 
recently and I *hope* there will be a good solution relatively soon (but 
I cannot promise anything about what "soon" means). The Gmane archives 
were taken over by a different maintainer in September 2016. He seemed 
to be very motivated and to have good support from some networking 
company, therefore we were hopeful and decided to just wait how that 
would work out. But it looks like there will not really be a nice web 
interface to the archive like we used to have, the gmane blog does not 
get updated anymore, and the maintainer (Martin Danko, at Yomura) does 
not respond to any of our questions.

However, that said, for the short term you *can* actually access the 
archive at GMANE: through "NNTP" instead of "HTTP". "NNTP" is a news 
server protocol. We think it's not a particular pleasant way to access 
the archives, but if you really want to then this is a way, you could 
try it out until we finally provide something better.

I am using the "Thunderbird" client. In the server configuration screen, 
the same screen where you can add new e-mail accounts, you can also add 
news/discussion groups, there is a separate button for that. Click that. 
Then add "news.gmane.org" as your news server. You may want to configure 
the frequency at which it checks messages and how many will be collected 
within your mail/news program (you can actually store the entire list 
archive, including all those years when you were not yet subscribed). 
There are of course very many lists on gmane, you need to "subscribe to" 
(meaning: select) the ones that interest you. So right-click on the 
GMANE server in the server list, then you should get a new window with a 
very long table of mailing lists that are archived. Now you select 
gmane.comp.science.opengate.user. Thunderbird will need some time to 
ingest all the message information of that list (as many messages as you 
configured earlier), and then you can use the search facility of 
Thunderbird to find messages on the mailing list.

If you have managed to find a message in the GMANE/NNTP archive that 
contains something of interest, and you would like to share/link this 
with other members of the gate-users mailing list, then you can use 
another local private archive of the list, namely this one:

http://lists.opengatecollaboration.org/mailman/private/gate-users/

(You need to enter your e-mail address, and a password that was sent to 
you when you signed up for the list, and is also sent to you at the 
beginning of every month in a list server reminder e-mail, which may or 
may not land directly in your junk mail folder. The fact that you need 
to login with a password means that it's invisible to Google, so this 
archive not easily searchable...)

The mails in that archive can be sorted e.g. by date, so it should be 
easy to find your particularly useful e-mail in there, using the 
date+subject information that you got from your search in the GMANE 
archive. And the mail in this mailman archive actually does have a URL 
that you can share with other members of the mailing list (because they 
have, just like you, a password that let's them access this private 
archive).

So, again, while this may fulfill your mail archive needs, we are aware 
that this is very cumbersome, and we are working on a more practical 
alternative. :-)

HTH,
David Boersma

Den 19/01/2017 kl. 02:07, skrev Larissa Njejimana:
> Hello Gate users,
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> I’m new to GATE and I’m wondering if there is a way to search the
> archive of the gate-users mailing list to see if problems I’m facing
> have been addressed in the past.
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> It was mentioned somewhere to go to
> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.science.opengate.user but the link
> doesn’t seem to work anymore.
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> Thanks for your help,
>
> Larissa Njejimana
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