• On 29 Mar 2012, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:04 PM, David Jeske <davidj@gmail.com> wrote:

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• Merging of forums, archives, newsgroups, and IMAP.

You like to bite off the big ones eh? NNTP, then IMAP.

Does anyone even use fat-mail-clients anymore?

Yes, and yes. But I don't think anybody has really thought carefully about these desiderata yet, they're just frequently suggested on mailman-users and sometimes mailman-developers.

+1

For what it's worth: I bridged MM archives to IMAP once using UW imapd and some scripts for proxying Mailman membership data into something that imapd could use for access control. When I presented it to this list it was generally identified as something nobody (w|sh)ould ever want. I don't care particularly about the details of what happened in 2002 or whenever it was, but I conclude that the much bigger problem than building this ship is choosing a destination. It needs to start with clear goals, because the wrong implementation is easy.

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