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Funky stuff for css-discuss

I think I’ve kept quiet for long enough, so here are some details of the two projects I have alluded to. The first is a database driven mailing list archive for css-discuss. It has just gone in to private beta, so anyone subscribed to the css-discuss list should have an email with the URL, username and password requried to try it out. It has a pretty usable search engine and does some nice threaded views in messages—more importantly, it now contains all 9,000+ messages sent to css-discuss since it launched back in January 2002 (imported from the static Mailman archives). I’ve spent many hours surfing through the archives already and they are a wealth of useful CSS information.

Project two is again related to css-discuss. I’ve been setting up a Wiki, which is currently being tweaked and poked and made ready for the general public. More on that when it launches.

Posted 7th August 2002 at 1:47 pm

This is Funky stuff for css-discuss by Simon Willison, posted on 7th August 2002.

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  1. I'm looking forward to using the Wiki. It will be nifty to surf to FloatRight and find all of the bugs associated with right floats, and so on.

    Micah - 8th August 2002 03:54 - #

  2. I'd be interested in the measures you've taken to secure the web-based archives from spambot address harvesters. The only reason I mention this is that this is the reason why Steve Champeon still refuses to create web-based archives for Webdesign-L (and opposes initiatives like MARC http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ ) Very regrettable, of course, as I find web-based mailing list archives (e.g. CHI-WEB's) invaluable.

    francois - 9th August 2002 09:54 - #

  3. Preventing the archive from becoming a gold mine for spambots was pretty much the number one design goal, and I'm confident that we have achieved that aim. How? By running absolutely everything through a regular expreszsion that removes all email addresses and anything that even looks like an email address before it is displayed on the site. It doesn't even try to abfusccate them - they are replaced with [EMAIL-REMOVED].

    Simon - 10th August 2002 09:45 - #

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