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Re: Hypermail archive
At 4:22 PM -0700 1997-02-03, Terje Norderhaug wrote:
>At 4:43 PM 2/3/97, John C. Mallery wrote:
>>At 2:41 PM -0500 1997-02-03, Ken Anderson wrote:
>>>We have set up a hypermail archive for the CLIM mailing list:
>>>
>>>http://openmap.bbn.com/hypermail/clim
>>>
>>>It should automatically update, but it may take a while to get it stable.
>>>Please reply to me if you have problems or comments.
>>
>>Ken,
>>
>>Why not run a modern hyperarchive written in Common Lisp minus
>>the regidity of C (recall that hypermail is a reimplementation of
>>Tom Gruber's original version in C)?
>
>"...hypermail is a reimplementation of Tom Gruber's original version in
>*LISP*" I assume... not to give any credit where it doesn't belong ;-)
Right you are. I typoed. Gruber's original is in Common Lisp and was developed under
Lucid. (You can still get it from his home page.) It was later recast in stone by EIT
for commercial consumption. Hypermail is not object-oriented and is fundamentally batch
oriented, emitting static files in a directory (making it a fine C program.)
The hyperarchive is object-oriented and dynamic. It uses the source mail file created
by a mailer, for example, as the non-volitile backing store. Thus, you can compute any
view you like into you mail archive. All basic ones are provided. You can specialize
methods and classes to customize the hyperarchive to meet your needs.
http://wilson.ai.mit.edu/cl-http/features.html#hyperarchive
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