[R-390] EMail List Forum stay at QTH.net or move to Groups.io

Fri Nov 11 10:08:51 EST 2022

Hi Bill,

Not sure why jpg images were not going through.  Don had content filtering
set to allow several file types as permissible attachments, e.g., pdf and
jpg.  I sent out a test and nothing went through so I wiped out the old
settings and set them up anew and it seems to work !!

Now I need to check if the attachments will be archived with the email
content.   

More to come.

Jerry NY2KW

-----Original Message-----
From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net <r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On
Behalf Of Bill
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2022 8:59 AM
Cc: R-390 Forum <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [R-390] EMail List Forum stay at QTH.net or move to Groups.io

Why isn't image or picture ability activated on this list?

It's only a setting change.

Bill W2CQ

On 11/11/2022 4:24 AM, Larry H wrote:
> Thanks Jerry, good info.
>
> In order to estimate the size of the file the complete R-390 list 
> archive would be, I calculated the approximate size of the Pearls 
> files made by Wei Li for our website. It's about 51 MB uncompressed 
> and that is about 3/4 of the total posts in the archive, so the size 
> of the archives would be about
> 68 MB.
>
> Here's how I obtain most of the information from the R-390 Email 
> Reflector Forum archives. This is documented in my document on our 
> website called: R-390x Newbie Support Information.  I use 2 methods to 
> do
> so:
> 1. The HHI Email Reflector Search Tool accessed with the internet link:
> http://www.w9wze.net/ReflectorSearch/SearchReflectorForm.php .
>
> Because it searches all of the archive, it takes a couple minutes to 
> provide the list. To see the item of interest from the list, just 
> click on the highlighted link. You can search the titles and/or 
> authors with 1 or 2 keywords specifying AND or OR operators.
>
> 2. The built-in method in the 'Mailman' tool that provides the 
> function for our Email Reflector Forum. Here's how I access the R-390 
> list of the archived entries from an internet window:
> http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/r-390/ . If you want to display 
> information for a different product group, just replace the 'r-390' 
> with it's name, such as: Collins, Hammarlund, National, Hallicrafters, 
> Heathkit, Eico, QRP, etc. It displays a table of entries for each 
> month. You can display the month's forum entries in a list sorted by: 
> thread, subject, author or date (by clicking on those keywords). From 
> that 2nd list you can display a desired post entry.
>
> Being able to search the content of the posts would be very helpful 
> because many times the title is not indicative of the content.  This 
> happens once in a while for a few different good reasons.
>
> I like the idea of using the Groups.IO search tools, but the question 
> is what to do about searching the existing archive.  I  really don't 
> relish the idea of  keeping the archive on my disk and using yet 
> another search tool (unless it comes with Kielbasa) as a solution.  I 
> like the results of the HHI tool, but it does not search content.
>
> Ideas anyone?
>
> Regards, Larry
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 7:30 AM <jsternmd at att.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Larry,
>>
>> Migrating the old archive to Groups.IO is not feasible as I understand.
>> The
>> Collins Collector Group Reflector list made this migration and have 
>> not been able to transfer their old Reflector archive which appears 
>> quite similar to the qth.net mail list format.  I can concatenate all 
>> the monthly R-390 archives into 1 large text file.  There are many 
>> free logical text search tools available but not sure if they would 
>> remain "free" for use on a public website.  Also bear in mind that 
>> the archives contain lots of content that have little historical 
>> value.  Searching would still take some time, for example if I wanted 
>> to find a thread on PTO restoration, it would take a modest effort to 
>> find a relevant 'hit' and then to copy the subject title and do a 
>> secondary search on that specific thread title.  It's a bit clunky
>> but when you need to find valuable old advice it can work well.   I did
>> this
>> with the old collections (pre-digital print) of the Collins Signal, 
>> where I used OCR and then put them all into a large single file.  I 
>> use Copernic, a personal free search tool then to find relevant 
>> subject matter.  I also started doing this with the old 73 Magazine 
>> issues where I used Adobe Acrobat to perform OCR to render searchable 
>> text.  Where there's will there's a way.
>>
>> Jerry NY2KW
>>
>>
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