My apologies to all for this blast-o-gram, but I am fairly new to this
mailing list, and am trying to figure out what mod_mbox is all about. A
search in google yielded nothing. So if somebody could be kind enough to
give me a small introduction, or better yet, make that overview available on
http://www.apachelabs.org/ itself, and point me to that!
Thanks,
M
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Erenkrantz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 6:40 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Web archival of mailing lists
>
>
> > Looks cool. Number-one nit: can you make the backgrounds white?
>
> I'll look into it. I'm not a UI person. I only use text browsers.
>
> > Also, I think mod_mbox could be immediately useful with
> > forward/backward/thread-listing arrows on every message. This is
> > non-trivial, but otherwise mod_mbox looks great.
>
> Actually, implementation-wise, it is fairly trivial (based on how I
> do indexing and stuff), but it is awful speed-wise. Since the only
> way to know the relative messages (via date or threading) is to
> compute the index or threading tree. Since I don't store the
> indexing
> information in the DBMs, I compute it on each hit. I like
> not computing
> the indexes until it is requested - my gut feeling is it is
> cheaper to
> compute the indexes than to load it from the DBMs each time, but that
> may not prove to be the case.
>
> That said, I am adding that functionality right now. When it is done,
> I'll post it on www.apachelabs.org. We'll see how it
> scales... AFAIK,
> MHonArc and Hypermail generate static HTML pages, so it is
> easy for them
> just to include the prev/next links (since they know what it is
> when they generate the page). I'm generating almost everything on the
> fly.
>
> Thanks for the feedback! -- justin
>
