[Mailman-Developers] sugestion: http-digest

[Chuq Von Rospach]

At 9:43 PM -0300 8/30/00, dojai@mail.ufv.br wrote:
>This may seem a stupid sugestion, but since almost all lists have an 
>archive: I was thinking why instead of receiving the traffic from 
>the list as a digest (my case) why can't there be an option (other 
>than text and mime) for just receiving an email with the URLs for 
>each entry of the traffic of the day.

It's be a great idea, but it requires that the web archives be fully 
integrated into mailman, and they aren't. You need some way to store 
stuff for web access, and you need a way to be able to refer to those 
URLs from mailman when it generates the digest. Right now, none of 
that logic exists -- the web archives mailman ships with are grafted 
onto the side, and the two speak only though a one-way interface.

It's a lot of work, and there's really no way to fake it, unfortunately.

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