OpenIDBetter mailing list archive integration
Why don’t emails in mailing lists with public archives have a URL in the footer to the archived version of that particular email?
What a fantastic idea. I’d love to do this for css-discuss, but the archive is a completely separate entity from the mailing list (it’s actually just a script listening to an address that’s subscribed to the list). Something like this would need to be built in to the actual mailing list software. That could be an interesting project for a rainy day.
I agree its a great idea, better integration between lists and the web is a key feature lacking from most mailing list managers.
An alternate approach is to use the fact that some lists (at least mailman) add a List-Archive header (e.g. List-Archive: <http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-tech>), and educate email programs on how to display this info. Would be easy to do with mutt at least.
kellan - 15th June 2003 23:10 - #
Why don't you just delete everything the script has generated, and fake an email "from" the script to the mailing list controller, asking for all the archived messages? Most mailing list managers handle archive requests don't they?
Jim - 15th June 2003 23:13 - #
nassim - 1st May 2006 03:58 - #
dani - 1st May 2006 04:00 - #