[Mailman-Developers] Patch for Mail Archive mirroring
JC Dill
lists05 at equinephotoart.com
Sun May 1 01:21:04 CEST 2005
Tobias Eigen wrote:
>>> - New third party archiving option that uses The Mail Archive. The
>>> implementation subscribes or unsubscribes the
>>> archive at mail-archive.com address from the subscriber list.
>>
>
> I find this whole discussion fascinating. I've been thinking about
> these types of possibilities for a while, and have been watching gmane
> and mail-archive off and on for inspiration for what Kabissa might do.
> Archiving is getting to be a big 'problem' at Kabissa currently, esp
> as our archives get older and bigger, and we desire to move to a more
> interactive and useful format for archiving discussions and making
> them more accessible via the web, i.e. in forums. Maybe the short-term
> answer is to encourage the listowners of our very busy lists to move
> their archives to mail-archive or gmane.
This looks like a good opportunity to mention that mailman-users and
mailman-developers are now also archived at:
<http://archives.free.net.ph/splash/index.en.html>
See this particular thread at:
<http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20050429.220927.207b9a02.en.html>
They asked for permission to join -dev so that it could be archived on
their site. At the time, their archives didn't have munged email
addresses, and Barry and I decided that if they fixed their archives to
not expose email addresses, he would give them permission to join -dev
and to archive mailman lists..
I like gmane's feature of making lists accessible in a newsgroup
fashion, and I like free.net's format of providing the list in a
threaded fashion via the web. This is not an endorsement of either
site, just a personal observation of some of the positive features each
of them offers over traditional list archives. Some list admins might
want to offer their lists to be mirrored/archived at more than one site.
While RFC 2369 only allows for one List-Archive: URL, I wonder if email
client implementations that understand 2369 (is there a list of which
ones are?) are generous in their response when a list email has more
than List-Archive header... Be generous in what you accept and all
that... :-)
jc
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