On Aug 29, 2009, at 1:10 AM, Bernd Siggy Brentrup wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 18:03 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
What I'm thinking is that there should be a "send me this message" link in the archive, which gets you a copy as it was originally sent to the list. That let's you jump into a conversation as if you'd been there originally.
Another use case comes up when coming back from temporarily disabled delivery where you want to participate in an ongoing discussion. I've always dreamed of a ml-request@listdomain function that retransmits any messages in References to me. It's clear that MM has to delegate this to the archiver.
I dream of a 'vacation' setting where you could tell Mailman the start
and end dates of your "delivery stop" and then those messages would
just be forwarded to you (perhaps as a digest) upon your return.
Almost exactly like what the US Post Office does IRL.
Something like this would be cool for another reason. Assuming you could trust the long term storage at the archive site (enough) it would eliminate the last reason why I locally archive any public mailing list messages.
... indicating your internet connection is by orders of magnitude better than mine :)
And yet, it's never enough! :)
To get on topic again: regarding address obfuscation in the archives, I noted:
- obfuscate by default,
- the archive admin may choose not to obfuscate but this fact will be stated clearly on every archive page à la: Email addresses are visible per choice of mailto:archiv-owner.
Yep, something like that.
-Barry