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Most list managers will
choose to activate Mailman's powerful archival features to make list traffic
available to members. Mailman makes it archives available through each list's
information page. Keep in mind that the list manager may have chosen not
to archive a particular list to which you belong. Also keep in mind that
it is a general practice to make the list archive available only to individuals
who are subscribed to the group.
If the archive is "open" then you will be able to go straight
in from the information page. If the archive is for subscribers only then
you will be prompted for your email address (make sure to use the address
that the list knows you as) and your list password. Once in, you will be
shown a historical listing of list traffic similar to the one shown at right.
The default setting for the archive is to divide messages by month. Do not
be surprised, however, if you see some other division of the archive contents:
the list manager decides how things will be divided up. There are different
viewing options for each month:
Thread: separates each topic that
was discussed from one another and then displays the notes that are part
of each "thread" following one another in an indented fashion.
This view is the best to use if you want an idea of how conversation on
a particular topic progressed.
Subject: sorts all postings alphabetically
by the subject line. This view is useful for finding a particular topic,
but it will not show the relationships in a visual fashion as in the Thread
view.
Author: sorts all postings alphabetically
based on the name of the author.
Date: sorts all postings by the date that they were delivered to the
list.
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