[Mailman3-dev] Feature request

[Barry Warsaw]

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 09:30, J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 09:16:16 -0400 
> Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 22:48, J C Lawrence wrote:
> 
> >> MH then adds various layering concepts like sequences files, but in
> >> general they don't apply to Mailman's interests (they essentially
> >> provide things like seen/unseen and abstracted views).
> 
> > I wonder if we'd need sequence files if say, we wanted to repopulate a
> > date-indexed archive thread.  OTOH, the magical mystical message store
> > probably ought to not care in what order the messages are fed to it
> > (if say, we wanted to blow away an archive and rebuild it from
> > scratch).
> 
> Don't bother.  MH isn't a transport, its a storage format albeit a
> rather nice one.  If you want indexes, do your own.
> 
> Now, harking back to earlier conversations: Stick NNTP on top of it...

+1!

-Barry