You can basically accomplish this now -- the current messages are at 
    http://squeak.cs.uiuc.edu/mail/squeak/mail42.html
right now. You can jump back and forth by editing the URL to mail2.html
to mail42.html (page one is maillist.html). If you bookmark the
"current" page, you can come back later and jump into things where you
last left them and "next page" from there (or just make a guess at what
the newest page will be - the list is running about 650-700 messages a
month on average - which is how I found out mail42.html is the most
recent page).

-- Dwight

joe davison wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>   I no longer have time to subscribe to this mailing list, but
> from time to time I like to drop by the archive to see how things
> are progessing.
> 
>   I just tried it and find it difficult to deal with because I'm
> presented with the oldest messages first and even the index only
> presents 20-100 messages at a time, oldest first.  I got tired
> of hitting "next page" before I got beyond mid 1998.
> 
>  Perhaps some links that start in the list at least at the beginning of
> each year (or month even) could be created to
> ease getting to more recent messages?  If not, could the date
> index be switched to go from latest backwards?
> 
> I probably won't see the replies, since I'm not subscribed, but
> I'll check back periodically.  (Hmmm, will it even post the message?)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>   joe davison