[Mailman-Developers] Moderation comment interface change
J C Lawrence
claw@under.engr.sgi.com
Mon, 08 Feb 1999 11:24:18 -0800
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:17:08 -0500
Christopher G Petrilli<petrilli@amber.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 10:55:55AM -0800, J C Lawrence wrote:
>> A brief perusal of the MHonArc list's archives and the regular
>> problems members have with message separators with MHonArc seems
>> to suggest otherwise. The lack of an absolute standard (eg BNF
>> diagram in a recognised RFC) for mbox format really doesn't help.
> Well, the other option is PMDF style (4 0x001 characters at the
> beginning of the line).
True, tho its been quite a while since I've run into that one.
> THe big problem with using MH-style is that it can become a HUGE
> HUGE HUGE disk hog...
I have a little over a million and a half messages in MH folders
right now, and yes, they chew disk space. Disk however is cheap.
> what I have looked into is shoving the whole thing into MySQL :-)
Not a bad idea, especially if batched with a set of export tools to
spit mbox/MH/etc for legacy interfaces.
> One table per list, which would let you do some really nice
> queries against it... this would let you move to a more dynamic
> page generation, rather than a static one, which would allow users
> to customize their page generation.
Problems are two fold:
Need a MHonArc analogue that will run against MySQL.
Need a decent search tool (I use WebGlimpse, but HT://Dig isn't
too bad) that will run against the results.
> Perhaps we need to start a list-archiver project seperate from
> mailman?
I'd say so.
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