[Zope] Could we migrate Zope email to a news group?

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----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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