[Mailman-Developers] Improving the archives

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jul 24, 2007, at 2:02 AM, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:

> Which brings me to suggestion #2, which is go ahead and write
> an RFC on how list servers should embed archival links in messages.
> This sounds like an internet wide interoperability issue as much as
> something mailman specific. Why not come up with a scheme usable
> by all list servers? And also describe a specification third party  
> archival
> services can comply to. Besides, I've always wanted to help write
> an RFC. If we go that route, it would be good to get input from a  
> range
> of people - one person I'd suggest is Earl Hood, author of mhonarc.

I've always thought that an RFC-like spec that describes how a  
generic mailing list manager would interoperate with a generic  
archiving service is the way to go.  I've written up a somewhat more  
formal spec of what I've implemented MM3 currently here:

http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Stable+URLs

If this looks good, I'd be happy to approach some of the related  
communities to try to get buy-in.

- -Barry

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