Re: [SLUG] another idea about this list

["Peter Samuel" <Peter.Samuel@nospam.ind.tansu.com.au>]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Dave Kempe wrote:

> 
> Yeah well as I was having my morning shower I had another idea about this
> list, so it might be really shithouse... but here goes.
> 
> Why not have the mailing list set the reply address of the list (or even the
> only address of the list) to one that is retrieved by a perl/php script and
> parsed into a mysql database?
> This strikes me as the most powerful way to handle the problem of list
> archiveing and indexing. Then we can have all the flexibility of a
> datadriven source to power our list. Then we can make the mailbot script add
> uniquie ids to the list, have it recognise threads (%age similar subject i
> spose), easily searchable much more powerful.
> Only downside is the storage problem i spose :( as in who has the resources
> to donate to our worthy cause?
> I'm sure there are many gurus willing to help write a very powerful
> script...

Why not just subscribe an archive user. All mail to that user goes
through the web archive program.

Regards
Peter
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