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>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>:

> [snip! on reading web mailing list archives with Gnus]
>>>>> Wesley.Hardaker@sphys.unil.ch:

>> Unfortunately, most mailing lists differ in the web backend they
>> use.  (or does listserv come with a standard?)  The last time I
>> looked for mail-to-web type software the list was something like
>> 10-20 packages long...

> Well, if we could support the 1 or 2 most used (starting with
> hypermail), I think that would get us pretty far.  Most of the
> archives I've seen, have been hypermail archives.

> There *may* be a problem with missing information in the generated
> HTML code, however...

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" -->
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<title>Somestupidarchivenamehere: Something testing</title>
<h1>Something testing</h1>
Steinar Bang (<i>sb@metis.no</i>)<br>
<i>Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:42:36 +0200</i>
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