> (A forwarded email from Jason Hunter)
>
> For the last few months I've been working on a new project: a web
> site for interacting with email archives. We're using, as the
> site's initial content set, the public Apache mailing list archives
> -- because Apache is the community I know best and I think people
> here will find the site useful. We've loaded a bit over 4,000,000
> emails across 500 lists.
>
>
http://apache.markmail.org>
> As you'll see with the chart on the home page, one of our goals with
> the site has been to focus heavily on analytics. We have lots of
> graphs and counts, and you're able to use them to watch Apache's
> historical growth and each individual project's growth. Every query
> you write gets its own histogram chart.
>
> Another goal has been interactivity. Every search result screen gives
> you lots of ways to refine your search (by sender, list, attachment
> type, etc). Plus we did a lot with keyboard shortcuts. You can hit
> "n" and "p" to move to the next and previous result and "j" and "k" to
> move up and down the thread view. There's a lot of little things like
> this. Plus if your result message includes Office or PDF files
> they're in-line interactive too.
>
>
http://apache.markmail.org/search/ext:ppt+axis>
> Another goal has been to focus on community. We could have launched
> MarkMail with 50,000,000 emails from many sources but I think it's
> better to start with focus. In fact, I'll be at ApacheCon and the
> Hackathon next week, along with my co-developer Ryan Grimm,
> looking for people's suggestions and maybe on the spot adding in a
> few of them. There's also potential to explore some fun one-off
> analytics, too.
>
> As part of the focus on communities, we setup MarkMail so it
> recognizes that Apache itself consists of many communities. If you go
> to
http://apache.markmail.org you search all Apache emails, but if you
> go to
http://struts.markmail.org then you're auto-limited to just
> Struts lists. Same for tomcat, spamassassin, httpd, and so on. You
> can always limit your search using "list:struts" in your query, but
> using the domain handles that a bit more elegantly.
>
> I've been working on this a long time, and I'm so happy to be able to
> share it with everyone. I hope you all find this useful!
>
> Notes on using the site:
>
> * Search using keywords as well as from:, subject:, extension:, and
> list: constraints
>
> * The GUI doesn't yet expose it, but you can negate any search item,
> like -subject:jira.
>
> * You can sort results by date by adding order:date-forward or
> order:date-backward to your query
>
> * Remember to use "n" and "p" keyboard shortcuts to navigate the search
> results
>
> * You're going to want JavaScript enabled
>
> If you'd like to send me private feedback I'm jhunter at apache dot org.
>
> -jh-
>
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