Re: Thank you Tony (was: XSL-list doomed)

[Warren Hedley <w dot hedley at auckland dot ac dot nz>]

Mike Brown wrote:
> 
> ... The only solution for large lists right now is to break up the
> archive into completely separate sections by month. It's still wasteful of
> resources, and then you also have to write a custom set of scripts to
> handle the automatic archiving under such a system. Rebuilding a large
> archive can also take *days* of one's time. It is not so simple as you
> would like to believe.

Also, Jose Kahan at the w3c has made his hypermail scripts available that
do the job of splitting mailboxes into separate time periods. I haven't had
a chance to test them myself yet, but it may interest someone.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/AboutArchives.html

-- 
Warren Hedley
Department of Engineering Science
Auckland University
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