Announcing the release of Glue 1.2, a mail list interface for browsing
and searching mail list archives via the World Wide Web. Those who got a
copy of "tmli" from Jason will want to take a look at Glue, since it was
derived from tmli. Glue is available at:
ftp://sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us/majordomo-contrib/glue-1.2.tgz
ftp://ftp.hpc.uh.edu/pub/glue/glue.tgz
Glue Mail List Interface
Glue is a set of Perl programs that combines (Majordomo) mail list
archives, the MHonArc mail folder HTML reformatter, and the Glimpse
search engine into a CGI interface for browsing and searching those
archives.
No, Glue doesn't stand for anything except what it is, glue code to
combine other programs into something useful. It don't mean nuthin'. If
you don't believe that, then think of it as sort of a gooey interface to
mail archives (pun intended).
Glue requires:
Perl 5 (only tested with 5.004_03)
CGI.pm (part of the 5.004 distribution)
AppCfg.pm (included)
MHonArc (tested with v2.1.0)
Glimpse (tested with 3.0)
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The Story:
Jason wanted to provide web-based archives for his lists. He looked
at all the offerings but found a dearth of free searchable archive
presenters. MHonArc was decidedly the best mbox -> web presenter out
there, and Glimpse a reasonable choice of indexer, but nothing combined
them. Then Jason saw Achim's page and begged him for the info on how he
did it.
Eventually what was called "tmli" emerged and archived Jason's lists
for a couple of years. tmli was poorly written, being Jason's first
Perl program. It had no documentation, though a message sent to
majordomo-users one day described it in sketchy detail.
Dave took the code and the message and turned it into something useful.
The result is Glue, so named because it is essentially a bit of glue
between MHonArc, Glimpse and archive2.pl-created mbox files. Hey, if we
were good at names, we'd be in marketing where the big bucks are. :-)
--
Dave Wolfe
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