Re: Web-based mailreading enhancement

[William Perry <wmperry@aventail.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:
>Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
>
>> I looked at some stuff generated by hypermail.  Much of this auxillary
>> information can be found in SGML/HTML comments at the start.  Head
>> (slightly edited to protect the innocent) of a typical hypermail file:
>> 
>> <!-- received="Fri Oct 11 14:42:52 1996 MET DST" -->
>> <!-- sent="Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:42:36 +0200" -->
>> <!-- name="Steinar Bang" -->
>> <!-- email="sb@metis.no" -->
>> <!-- subject="Something testing" -->
>> <!-- id="199610111242.NAA20690@client.metis.no" -->
>> <!-- inreplyto="" -->
>
>Well, if I want "headers" from all articles from
>Somestupidarchivenamehere, can Hypermail give me that?

  I don't think you can.  You might be able to do something heinous with
the information in the big 'summary' view that hypermail can use.  It gives
you the URLs, the subject, and I think the author's 'nice' name (William
Perry instead of 'wmperry@aventail.com').

  I don't think you would want to do this with regexp's on the HTML though.
The 'threading' view is done by using nested lists.  Relatively easy to
handle from the parser (its even iterative! ;) though.

  If you want, I can mail you the output of the relevant chunks of the
parse tree of the oct96 linux kernel mailing list.

-Bill P.