Re: [ADMIN] Read me first!

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Kent Landfield (kent@landfield.com)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:33:54 -0500 (CDT)

# >And on top of that, the hypermail archives on faqs.org will not thread
# >the articles properly as they did before. All the Messig-IDs and References
# >are totally inaccurate.
#
# Well, if it helps any, Lyris archives all of its mail in ODBC accessible
# databases. The advantage of that is that it is easy to build alternative
# message reading interfaces. Right now you can search the archives by email,
# from the list web pages, or even with your news reader.
#
# <http://lists.consensus.com/scripts/lyris.pl?visit=faq-maintainers>
# <news://lists.consensus.com/faq-maintainers>
#
# The web interface could use some beautifying, but I still find it much more
# useful than hypermail.

That is not the point. The point was that Lyris' broken Message-ID semantics
are affecting other things than just the list. The established mail archives
are also being affected. Those that might gateway the list's traffic into a
mail2news gateway for local purposes are also finding that the Message-ID
usage is breaking new reader threading. I really don't care how Lyris
archives things but I do care when changes to the list affect alot of
things that are external to your site that are and have been supporting
the list for a long time. Please don't get me wrong... I am trying to
get this right so that everything can co-exist as it did BL (Before Lyris).

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