Re: Whack of changes to archives ...

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 13:17, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> Based on comments from Oleg, I did a bunch of cleaning up of the archives
> (which is still in the process of being "re-mhonarced") ...
>
> First and foremost, a 'Last-Modified' date is now set, based on the
> timestamp of the file ... the script that generates the files is designed
> so that it doesn't go through and re-create old messages, so as long as I
> don't to rebuild the whole things 'yet again', the time stamps should stay
> pretty fixed ...
>
> Second, I added a bunch of code that is aimed at reducing the amount of
> information that gets indexed by search engines. For instance, the banner
> and search code at the top of *every* page isn't displayed, nor are the
> followup/references stuff at the bottom ... and only the date index is
> searched, not the thread ones ... basically, content is presented, not the
> miriad of links to that same content ... basically, for the msg* files,
> I've strip out *everything* except the message itself ...
>

Woohoo! Been wishing for a couple of these. Thanks Marc! :-)

Robert Treat
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