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Re: is there a date order archive of this list?
From: Rodney Petersen <rpetersen () EDUCAUSE EDU>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:50:30 -0600
If you place your cursor over the word "date" in the third column and click it will sort the monthly archive by date. The default setting sorts by "subject" which makes it easy to read a particular thread and ignore others. There is also an option to received a "digest" of the list by selecting "Join or Leave SECURITY" and following the instructions. Below is more information about those options: Help for Subscription Type Regular With a "regular" subscription, you receive individual postings immediately as they are processed by LISTSERV. Digest (Traditional), Digest (MIME format), Digest (HTML format) With a "digest" subscription, you receive larger messages (called "digests") at regular intervals, usually once per day or once per week. These "digests" are collections of individual list postings. Some lists are so active that they produce several digests per day. Digests are a good compromise between reading everything as it is posted and feeling like the list is clogging your mailbox with a multitude of individual postings. There are three digest formats: a "traditional", text-only format; a MIME format, which (with mail clients that understand MIME digests) "bursts" the individual messages out of the digest so that you can read them separately; and an HTML format, which requires an HTML mail clients. Index (Traditional), Index (HTML format) With an "index" subscription, you receive short "index" messages at regular intervals, usually once per day or once per week. These "indexes" show you what is being discussed on the list, without including the text of the individual postings. For each posting, the date, the author's name and address, the subject of the message, and the number of lines is listed. You can then download messages of interest from the server (the index contains instructions on how to do that). An index subscription is ideal if you have a slow connection and only read a few hand-picked messages. The indexes are very short and you do not have to worry about long download times. The drawback of course is that you need to reconnect to retrieve messages of interest from the server. You can choose to have the index sent to you in either a traditional format (plain text) or in HTML format with hyperlinks. -Rodney -------------------------------------------------- Rodney J. Petersen, J.D. Government Relations Officer & Security Task Force Coordinator EDUCAUSE 1150 18th Street, N.W., Suite 1010 Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 331-5368 / (202) 872-4200 (202) 872-4318 (FAX) EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Security Task Force www.educause.edu/security -------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Robin Stubbs Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 2:21 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] is there a date order archive of this list? I am so sorry to burden people with another question. This will be the last! Does anyone know how to put or find the archives in date order? http://listserv.educause.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A1=ind0810&L=SECURITY or is there somewhere else it is archived where there is another order besides subject,date available? I really don't need to be directly subscribed to this list and if I could find the archives in date order then I'd unsubscribe and people could send me-toos about policy in a blizzard of abundance without me caring at all. I would add that I could see splitting the list into something like security_policy and security_technical or something like that. Personally, I'm interested in technical issues (eg latest threat, latest defenses, gee whiz what those miscreants have done :-) but I personally have no role whatsoever in setting policy, whereas I'm sure that many people on this list are in the opposite boat, and some are in both.
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- is there a date order archive of this list? Robin Stubbs (Oct 10)
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- Re: is there a date order archive of this list? Rodney Petersen (Oct 10)