[Mailman-Developers] Requirements for a new archiver

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:12 PM -0500 2003/10/27, Barry Warsaw wrote:

>  What would then be in the database would be records providing easy
>  lookup by message-id (at least) into the on-disk message store.

	Putting meta-data into the database would work.  Then use that 
index information to actually access the files.  I recommended the 
same in my invited talk at 
<http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/papers/dihses/>.

	Of course, if you're going to use a USENET interface, you should 
use Diablo as the back-end.  ;-)

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