[oslc] Preferred user experience to search mail archives

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

Le mercredi 25 mai 2011 à 10:49 -0400, Kartik Kanakasabesan a écrit :
> Hello Community Members,
>                                          I would like to solicit feedback 
> on the current user experience on searching information in the email 
> interactions we have been having via the current mailing lists.
> How do all of you search for information if wanted to find out about a 
> topic that was discussed via a mailing list in some prior post ? Is there 
> a preference in the community to have a searchable forum type 
> infrastructure to facilitate better interactions and search ability or 
> that we look at providing a better search interface on the existing 
> mailing lists. 
> We are not looking for a either/or type answer but more around preference, 
> so that we can get the right kind of infrastructure in place.

IMHO, email is perfectly fine as long as one's MUA is working good (i.e
has search fetaures ;)... although the bad quoting, responses to digest
messages and such behaviours that tend to break the threads don't help.
But the users only are to blame, I suppose ;)

My 2 cents,

Best regards,
-- 
Olivier BERGER <olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu>
http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8
Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France)