-----Original Message----- From: The Dragon De Monsyne [mailto:dragondm@integral.org] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 5:36 AM To: Martijn Pieters Cc: Paul Jackson; Mike Pelletier; zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Could we migrate Zope email to a news group?
Actually, there already is such a thing, and Digicool is alredy using it! The MailMan list software has web archiving and a newsgroup gateway build in!
The Web archiver in Mailman's mother was a hamster and father smelled of elderberry. I have been given explicit permission to state this fact by Ken. ;)
The web interface can provide an archive, with reliability
(more so than
email!), searchability (especially if the news-group is not part of USENET), and the right look and feel. Also, having a URL to point to is a great boon when discussing recurring topics.
"Agreed. " * 3
<gratuitous plug> IMAPAdapter! I've put IMAPAdapter development on hold for a bit (because it's really not very safe to use until Zope 2 when blocking isn't an issue) but IMAPAdapter can make a great mail list web archive, given that you have an IMAP folder archiving the mail for you. This basicly gives you a full mail client functionality through the web, with fun stuff like searching and sorting, MIME handling and threading built in nicely. Once I get the new Cataloging code finished up, tying that in with IMAPAdapter would give some very fast and interesting searchability. As I understand it, the searching algorithms for most (free) IMAP servers are pretty brute forceish and slow. </gratuitous plug> -Michel
-The Dragon De Monsyne
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