[Mailman-Developers] archiving size issue

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:06 PM -0400 2006-06-07, Barry Warsaw wrote:

>  Ultimately, I think generating the archive html on the fly is the right
>  way to go.  That approach provides so many possible benefits at the
>  mere <wink> cost of cpu time.  When the original archive system was
>  designed, that cost was too high, and thus we have the static page
>  rendering approach.  But today I think the tradeoff tips in the other
>  direction.

	I think we need to have both solutions.  I have some really 
anemic machines running Mailman, and I can't imagine what they'd do 
if they had to generate HTML archives on the fly.

>  As I always say when this topic comes up, I'd love to have some
>  motivated developers come forward to help with an archiver redesign, so
>  if you're interested in doing work here, let me know!

	I can give some input and feedback based on my own experiences, 
but I'm not a developer.  ;(

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