[Mailman3-dev] Feature request

[J C Lawrence]

On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 09:16:16 -0400 
Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 22:48, J C Lawrence wrote:

>> MH then adds various layering concepts like sequences files, but in
>> general they don't apply to Mailman's interests (they essentially
>> provide things like seen/unseen and abstracted views).

> I wonder if we'd need sequence files if say, we wanted to repopulate a
> date-indexed archive thread.  OTOH, the magical mystical message store
> probably ought to not care in what order the messages are fed to it
> (if say, we wanted to blow away an archive and rebuild it from
> scratch).

Don't bother.  MH isn't a transport, its a storage format albeit a
rather nice one.  If you want indexes, do your own.

Now, harking back to earlier conversations: Stick NNTP on top of it...

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