FWIW I disagree with Russ - the Web is really better at this stuff in terms
of (a) scaling up to large, long-lived lists, (b) sophisticated searching
(even, or especially, via Google) and (c) flexibility of human interface.
And I say this as an avid IMAP user.
The meta-lesson, if you will, is that you should store your list archives
in the most presentation-independent format possible, so as to preserve
your options when you change your mind every five years, or when archive
browsing technology leaps. Don't cook messages permanently into HTML pages.
--On Friday, August 16, 2002 8:31 PM -0700 Jeffrey Goldberg
<jeffrey@goldmark.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
>> (Which indicates to me that the real future of archiving of mailing lists
>> is in read-only IMAP folders.)
>
> This is one of those ideas that fall into the category of "I wish I'd
> thought of that." No doubt that in a few years, I'll actually come to
> believe that I had thought of it.
>
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