On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Andrew M. Kuchling wrote:
chas writes:
Seems like this would actually be a superb product - "mailing list archiver". Threading in particular would be a great plus.
Indeed. From my experience writing Pipermail, I'm becoming increasingly convinced that it's better to create e-mail archives as databases instead of static files that are created by a script, because static files lack flexibility. What do you do with the back archives when you decide to switch from quarterly to monthly, or monthly to weekly? Storing things in a database & rendering them on the fly would grant more flexibility. (No, I'm not volunteering to write anything.)
As the author/integrator of a good chunk of the MailMan webarchiving code, I will agree with you heartily. Static files are a pain. PS: I am actually in the middle of writing a Zope mailinglist archiver product called MessageBase. -The Dragon De Monsyne