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Abstracts - 1997 ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE
Mailing List Archive Tools
Sam Leffler and Melange Tortuba
Silicon Graphics and Tortuba Consulting
Abstract
Electronic mailing lists are a common forum for discussion on the
Internet. Each participant receives a copy of each message posted to the
list with an additional copy typically archived at a well-known site for
later retrieval. Busy lists and long-running lists can quickly
accumulate many messages making it difficult to locate information. Few
sites provide mechanisms for the efficient storage or retrieval of
information from these archives. The Mailing List Archive (MLA) tools
were designed to address these issues.
Mail messages are stored in a space-efficient manner and the archive
information is processed to create a database that is optimized for fast
queries. The MLA tools are designed for use as Computer Gateway
Interface (CGI) applications so that archives can be accessed through
HTML forms on the World Wide Web. Concurrent update and retrieval are an
integral part of the design so that up to date information is always
returned in query results.
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