FWIW I disagree with Russ - the Web is really better at this stuff in terms of (a) scaling up to large, long-lived lists, (b) sophisticated searching (even, or especially, via Google) and (c) flexibility of human interface. And I say this as an avid IMAP user.
The meta-lesson, if you will, is that you should store your list archives in the most presentation-independent format possible, so as to preserve your options when you change your mind every five years, or when archive browsing technology leaps. Don't cook messages permanently into HTML pages. --On Friday, August 16, 2002 8:31 PM -0700 Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> (Which indicates to me that the real future of archiving of mailing lists >> is in read-only IMAP folders.) > > This is one of those ideas that fall into the category of "I wish I'd > thought of that." No doubt that in a few years, I'll actually come to > believe that I had thought of it. >
