http://www.webcom.com/gwalker/altphoto/
Every message has been set up as an seperate page. The messages are
listed in an index. You have the option of indexing by subject, thread,
date and author. The default is by subject.
It is VERY easy to go through the index and pick out postings on
particular subjects.
I believe it is even possible to refer to the address of an individual
postings by its address (URL)
For example the URL of the very first posting to this list is
http://www.webcom.com/gwalker/altphoto/alt94/0001.html
a recent posting by me
http://www.webcom.com/gwalker/altphoto/alt96b/0480.html
Members of the list should be able to refer to specific posings via the
message's URL
Next time we tell a beginner to check the archive, we should be able to
tell them EXACTLY where they should look.
The other really nice things is that URL's quoted in a posting are set up
as links and are functional.
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HOLTSLANDER@SKYFOX.USASK.CA Department of Biology
URL: http://duke.usask.ca/~holtsg University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Tel (306)966-4433 S7N 5E2
FAX (306)966-4461 Canada
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On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, JOHN L. DIXON wrote:
> George Smyth has a web site on which he maintains an index of the archive.
> By downloading this index, you can scan its contents at leisure to find the
> subjects that interest you. This will aid in relieving the list membership from
> plowing old ground over and over.
> Smyth's index was 87 pages long as of 7/29/96 but this is considerably less than
> 2 1/2 years of archives.
> If you want to download this index, the web address is:
> http://www2.ari.net/glsmyth/alt.photo.sub.list.html
> After downloading the index, you can select the archive year and month that
> interests you and retrieve just that part. I hope this helps the newbies get
> comfortable with the list.