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On Feb 9, 2004, at 2:41 PM, Walter Lewis wrote: > I had occasion to be thinking about this last fall a I contemplated the > fact that out Mail server of choice has mailing list options but no > list > archives options. I was looking for an agent that could be subscribed > to the Mailing List and would put it's copies of the postings in a data > store for indexing and searching. > > One of the issues that I bumped into was that was passes for HTML in > some email programs is [insert expletive of choice here]. Putting it > in > an XML data store was going to cause a tons of validation errors. I am very happy with the email mailing list archiver I use. It is called Hypermail: http://hypermail.org/ Most importantly, it creates robust, metadata-rich HTML files. It also creates, by default, browsable lists by author, date, subject, and even thread. For example, see the source of an archived email message: http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mailing-lists/code4lib/archive/0071.html What' really cool is swish-e will pick up the contents of the meta tags in the source file and make those field searchable indexes. Not bad. BTW, when I use Hypermail, I use it in the most generic form. Very little configuration. I could make the pages prettier, but I'm lazy. -- Eric University Libraries of Notre Dame (574) 631-8604