[9506] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Wanted: HyperMail Done Right
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel LaLiberte)
Mon Dec 25 00:39:26 1995
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 95 23:31:46 CST
From: liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Daniel LaLiberte)
To: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@beach.w3.org>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <m0tU4aY-0002USC@beach.w3.org>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Daniel W. Connolly writes:
> Hypermail is great. Mhonarc is even better. But I've got a lot of
> ideas for improvements:
I want HyperNews done right in the same ways you have listed and more.
I know Hypermail is the email archive of choice, but HyperNews is
receiving continuing development attention, whereas Hypermail is
relatively static. So I'd rather see community efforts directed
toward HyperNews. With a configuration option, I could make HyperNews
even look like Hypermail, if familiarity is a factor.
I'm going to add the bidirectional email support to HyperNews RSN and
then I'll have to address all the same issues you listed.
> I saw some activity in news:comp.lang.python along this direction. Any
> takers around here?
HyperNews is written in Perl, but I've entertained the idea of
rewriting in Python or Java.
Daniel LaLiberte (liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~liberte/
http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/hypernews.html
