About the visit users@ornl.gov email archive

Due to a number of user inquiries, we have imported our visit-users@ornl.gov email archive to GitHub discussions.

You may have followed a link from such a discussion to this page.

Be aware that the import process has some caveats...

• Although it might have been appropriate to import the email into a Q&A type of discussion, a challenge in so doing would have been to automate identifying which reply, if any, is considered the answer. That would require human intervention and we don't have the resources for that.
• Every discussion (and follow-up comment) will appear to GitHib as having been entered on the date the import was done and by the GitHub user who did the import.
  • Refer to Date and From lines (at the top of each post) for the true origination information.
• Each email thread defines a discussion (original post and replies).
• Long message bodies were truncated to < 20,000 characters.
• Original message formatting was lost including any embedded links.
• Attachments were lost.
• Anything looking like it could have been a phone number was masked out.
  • In some cases, this lead to unavoidable corruption of raw numerical data in a message body.
• Content here can be discovered from Google, searched and browsed but all discussions are locked to new comments.
• Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns about a given post here.
• You can view the actual import script we developed and used.