[Mailman-Developers] Future of pipermail?

[J C Lawrence]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:20:55 +0000 
Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham@VData.co.uk> wrote:

> chuqui@plaidworks.com said:
>> Does mailman have to an an integrated archiver? Isn't this
>> another variant of the "integrated MTA" discussion?

> Maybe.  There are times when I would really love to have archive
> message id or URL references in messages for example - ie when a
> particularly great pearl of wisdom comes from you folks which I
> want to reference on another list it would be great if I could
> easily grab an archive reference from the original message (as
> opposed to going to the archives and hunting out the original
> message then copying the URL) to send on.

One of my users (Dominic Edison IIRC) hacked a CGI to do this with
MHonArc based archives.  Hand it a MessageID and it hands you the
archive page for that message.  You can find it in the tasks at
Kanga.Nu (I have yet to enable it).

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