On 8/16/02 9:51 PM, "Russ Allbery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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). If that's your feeling, then you're so bound to the NNTP client interfaces that I don't think you can really judge the web interfaces. You're so comfortable in one space than any other space can't be comfortable. That's a bad thing to be if you're trying to build sytstems in that other space. (or as I like to say it, if you're someone who loses your brain when you're with a redhead, you can't really judge a contest between blondes). > 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. God, no. what, flat files and grep? (shudder) -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ Very funny, Scotty. Now beam my clothes down here, will you?
