Hi Steve,
Steve Rothman wrote: > Some people might rather use a "bulletin board" type interface to a mailing > list, (ie: subscribe to the list, then put themselves on "nomail" status, > and just review the archive on a regular basis) and it occurs to me that > MHonArc is already pretty close. That's similar to what I do on one of my lists. The archives are public so anyone (not just list members) can follow the discussions. I use the <DayBegin> and <DayEnd> resources to highlight the daily messages and build a calendar-view of the archive from the messages. You can see how this looks at http://www.mumbai-central.com/grapevine/calendar.html (the calendars are built by a perl script that greps the archived HTML files for dates) On a different list, I create an Author Index and then use a similar script to build a page that lists all the authors. e.g. http://www.mumbai-central.com/nukkad/jun2003/author_list.html > Some things I can think of that would make MHonArc even better for this kind > of use would be: > > * Some sort of link on each page so that the message being read could be > responded to, back to the mailing list address, with the appropriate subject > line, from line, and headers, so it would work properly with the threading. > I guess this would require some sort of script that is executed at the time > the user clicks the link. As has been shown, this is trivial to do with mhonarc. However, I see a lot of list-management issues with something list this. Do you allow only subscribers to post to the list or even non-subscribers? What about email harvesters and the resulting spam? > * Some way to (optionally) view the contents of an entire thread at a time. Earl had mentioned that he had created a custom extension to mhonarc that displayed all the messages of a thread on a page. He also mentioned that all the resources and other information is available so anyone interested in this could build it themselves. I haven't studied the 'blog.mrc' resource file but it might do part of what you want. The file is at http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/rcfileexs/blog.mrc.html and other examples are at http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/app-rcfileexs.html Regards, Harshal -- http://www.mumbai-central.com : Where Mumbaikars meet --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE MHONARC-USERS