Tom Neff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
I'll believe that when I see an archive interface that I can stand to use more than occasionally with a great deal of pain. I'm still looking. Google doesn't cut it either (although Google Groups is certainly better than 99% of the mailing list archives out there). > 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. Saving the archives as mbox files or as separate files per message is probably the best, as the e-mail format is more stable than most anything else. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
