On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 17:46, PieterB wrote:
It's a similar university project of the Eindhoven University of Technology. The project has just been finished and I assume all sources are/will be available. I saw the author upload the code to sf.net, and probably our host gewis.nl will host a demo environment in a couple of weeks.
Cool!
About coupling the archiver/mailinglist:
So I don't want to have to ask the archiver for that url. I want Mailman to be able to calculate it from something unique in the message, and have the archiver agree on the algorithm, so that it (or some other translation layer) can do the mapping back to the archived article. Or, Mailman should be able to calculate a unique id for the article and stuff that in a header for the archiver to index on.
Zwiki has implemented such functionality based on the time that the message is received/sent. E.g. a mailout for a webpost at the http://zwiki.org/GeneralDiscussion looks like this in the e-mail: (look at the generated signature, with a hyperlink to the message anchor)
There is a discussion on the mailman-developers list on the requirements of an archiver: See: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mailman.devel or my post at: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mailman.devel/14954
forwarded from http://zwiki.org/GeneralDiscussion#msg20031027142214-0800@zwiki.org
Off course, in this case the msgid, doesn't have to be shared between the archiver and mailinglist, because zwiki does both in one application.
That's not bad (probably better than the sha hexdigest I'm usually so fond of :), but yep we need to agree on a way to pass that information to the archiver. Mailman does add a unique header specifying the time of arrival, but I suggest a special X- header that Mailman can insert and the archiver can read.
Anybody know of any prior art here?
-Barry