[Discuss] list archive viewer

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

I've made a first pass at setting up mhonarc.

http://blu.org/mhonarc/discuss/


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Tom Metro <tmetro+blu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tom Metro wrote:
> > A better approach, if they'd go for it, would be getting
> > mail-archive.com to enhance their platform to permit some list-specific
> > [emedding].
>
> I sent an email to mail-archive.com to see if they'd be willing to
> support this.
>
> I see Gmane now offers a form of rudimentary embedding, which you can
> see applied on our mailing list page:
>
> http://blu.wikispaces.com/mailing+lists
>
> where an IFRAME box is used to show the 5 most recent threads on the
> list. If we wanted to increase the visibility of the mailing list, this
> could be put on the blu.org home page.
>
> (Gmane covers this feature in their FAQ (http://gmane.org/faq.php) under
> "Can I include a box displaying the latest topics on my mailing list on
> my web page?" And the info page for any list, such as BLU Discuss
> (http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.boston.discuss), shows
> the ready-to-paste HTML snippet for doing this.)
>
>
> > mail-archive.com offers up a different sort of integration possibility.
> > They provide the algorithm they use to calculate an archive post's URL,
> > so you can add this code to your mailing list manager and have the
> > "permalink" for archived message appear in the footer of the distributed
> > message.
>
> Gmane supports the same idea using the message ID:
>
>   How do I link to a specific article if I just know the Message-ID?
>   http://mid.gmane.org/1234567890.1234567890 at example.com
>
> which should be even easier to integrate into a mailing list manager.
>
> Unfortunately it doesn't appear that message ID is one of the
> substitution variables that mailman provides for including in message
> body headers or footers.
> http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-admin/node18.html
>
> Otherwise this would be a trivial addition.
>
>  -Tom
>
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