# MarkMail: now archiving the Ruby lists

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/markmail-now-archiving-the-ruby-lists/128025>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 4, 2008, 11:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/markmail-now-archiving-the-ruby-lists/128025 "2008-02-04T11:14:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jason\_Hunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc79bd/32.png) [@Jason\_Hunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jason_Hunter)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 11:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/markmail-now-archiving-the-ruby-lists/128025/1 "2008-02-04T11:14:13Z")

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I’m happy to let you all know that MarkMail (a free email archive site,  
launched in November) has started hosting the archives of the ruby-lang  
lists. You can find them here:

[http://ruby-lang.markmail.org](http://ruby-lang.markmail.org)

We focus a lot on analytics, and every query gets its own histogram  
activity chart. For example, here’s the posts by Matz over time:

[http://ruby-lang.markmail.org/search/from:"Yukihiro%20Matsumoto"](http://ruby-lang.markmail.org/search/from:%22Yukihiro%20Matsumoto%22)

For a discussion comparing the holistic Ruby traffic graphs to those of  
Groovy:

> **[Ruby vs Groovy: What Can List Traffic Tell Us?](http://markmail.blogspot.com/2008/01/ruby-vs-groovy-what-can-list-traffic.html)**
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> Over the weekend we loaded the main Ruby lists from ruby-lang.org , about 300,000 messages across the last six years. The ruby-talk list a...

The 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. If  
your result message includes Office or PDF files they’re in-line  
interactive too. Example:

[http://ruby-lang.markmail.org/search/ext:pdf+dbc](http://ruby-lang.markmail.org/search/ext:pdf+dbc)

The subdomain you use implicitly limits the messages you search. Thus  
[http://ruby-lang.markmail.org](http://ruby-lang.markmail.org) searches only lists with “ruby-lang” in  
their name. If you go to [http://ruby.markmail.org](http://ruby.markmail.org) it includes those and  
also some Apache and WSO2 lists focusing on Ruby. You can go to  
[http://markmail.org](http://markmail.org) to search across all lists.

I hope you all find this useful! More info about the site and why we’re  
doing it is in the FAQ ([http://markmail.org/docs/faq.xqy](http://markmail.org/docs/faq.xqy)). Let me know  
if you have any questions.

Notes on using the site:

- Search using keywords as well as from:, subject:, extension:, list:,  
and date: constraints. The question mark graphic gives samples.

- The GUI doesn’t yet expose it, but you can negate any search item,  
like -subject:soap

- Remember to use “n” and “p” keyboard shortcuts to navigate the search  
results

- You’re going to want JavaScript enabled

-jh-