On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 20:52:26 -0800 Chuq Von Rospach chuqui@plaidworks.com wrote:

At 11:23 PM -0500 11/21/00, Bill Bumgarner wrote:

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• archival of messages is a lot more than just writing the bodies

to a web server and then generating some kind of automatic TOC/index.

agreed completely. I'd take it a step further and say it probably shouldn't generate indexes at all, but that indexes should be generated when a user wants to access the archives, dynamically. That's probably the single major weakness of mhonarc.

I have half a design and some basic code roughed out to have the PHP+MHonArc setup I used on Kanga.Nu instead inject the deconstructed data into an SQL DB with the message presentation code rather than reading from the PHP variable assignements sucking everything out of the DB etc etc etc. It wouldn't be very difficult to do and MHonArc has excellent MIME parsing and handling features to act in support of this.

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MIME based email content is not only a reality, but it is often the default.

and since AOL 6.0 for windows no longer has any provision for text-only operation, you now have no choice but to deal with MIME in some way. they no lnoger HAVE the option to turn MIME off. So the server has to figure it out.

Ahh. That explains why I've been rejectting so many postings from AOL members on my lists lately (I don't allow HTML as an aid to promoting high signal lists).