SuSE, and anyone else who cares about this thread....
I understand the frustration at so many patches for v6.4 but having used some other distributions and been on their support lists, this list that SuSE runs is as useful as anything I have seen. Good, timely information is as valuable as any other feature of a distribution to me. So thanks SuSE! I have a new interest in ways to "mine" this and other lists since I saw Miguel's Evolution at LinuxWorld. My idea is to create aliases for lists/topics of interest such as: suse@somesite.com apache@somesite.com mysql@somesite.com kde@somesite.com Subscribe to the lists then using the rule creation capability of the Evolution email component make subtopic finding rules to create search keys in Evolution's database. You sit lurking on the bunch of lists, backed by a big hard disk, and create some knowledge bases. Every week or two, you scan through a sampling of message subjects and bodies to look for new rules that need to be added. Looking over the SuSE list since about mid May there has been a great start on such a knowledge base even with all the OTT (off technical topic) stuff. It would of course take up disk space but typically no search keys would be generated for the OTT things, unless of course your interest in knowledge bases stretches to the bazaar. Some kind of scheme like this would even be a great way for SuSE to make list archives more useful and much less effort to generate. I suspect that anyone subscribing to all the distros in this way, would find the SuSE list builds up a useful knowledge base faster. Not a typical benchmark, but perhaps something useful to consider. Ed Scott ed.scott@jpl.nasa.gov Opinions expressed here are entirely my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer or other orgnizations. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq