When Walter asked if someone was up to the task
of converting the old newsgroup to html, i said
to myself "Ok, here is my chance to impress him" !

I thought i can do it in one or two weeks.

But his was an error for two reasons:

1.    Jen Knepper had already offer to do the job, and
2.    There exists excellent tools that do exactly that.
        (links at the end of this post)

I realized that i might have walk on the toes of Jan.
I hope Jan is not offended of this.

Working on this was a lot of fun. I learned. But, there
is much more to consider than i first thought.

To do the job properly, one must process the Content-Type, Encoding-Type, MIME presence, ...

So i searched the net for some source code.
i finally found a page which was produced by Pipermail.

Looking for Pipermail ( which is discontinued), i found
these three packages:

1.  Hypermail

     http://www.hypermail.org/
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/hypermail/

2.  MHmonArc

          http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html

3.  mharc

    http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html

There is no development to do, just configuration files... mharc seems to simplify even more the task.

I dont know if Jan was aware of these packages when he said it was a lot of work, but here they are.

I think they will help a lot more than i can..

Marc

Thanks! hypermail looks like just the ticket.

"Marc" <mcote333@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:c7024m$311t$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> When Walter asked if someone was up to the task
> of converting the old newsgroup to html, i said
> to myself "Ok, here is my chance to impress him" !
>
> I thought i can do it in one or two weeks.
>
> But his was an error for two reasons:
>
> 1.    Jen Knepper had already offer to do the job, and
> 2.    There exists excellent tools that do exactly that.
>         (links at the end of this post)
>
> I realized that i might have walk on the toes of Jan.
> I hope Jan is not offended of this.
>
> Working on this was a lot of fun. I learned. But, there
> is much more to consider than i first thought.
>
> To do the job properly, one must process the Content-Type, Encoding-Type, MIME presence, ...
>
> So i searched the net for some source code.
> i finally found a page which was produced by Pipermail.
>
> Looking for Pipermail ( which is discontinued), i found
> these three packages:
>
> 1.  Hypermail
>
>      http://www.hypermail.org/
>      http://sourceforge.net/projects/hypermail/
>
> 2.  MHmonArc
>
>           http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html
>
> 3.  mharc
>
>     http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html
>
> There is no development to do, just configuration files... mharc seems to simplify even more the task.
>
> I dont know if Jan was aware of these packages when he said it was a lot of work, but here they are.
>
> I think they will help a lot more than i can..
>
> Marc
>
>