Re: on-the-fly html encoding

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 04:09:25PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Shane Wegner wrote:
>
> > One in mbox format and one in HTML. My question is are there any
> > CGI scripts or interfaces out there that will somehow use hypermail to
> > generate an html version of an mbox message and display it on the web.
>
> Why not just convert the mailbox to HTML and remove the original mailbox
> file? It seems like a waste of resources to do on-the-fly converting of
> static contents.

What would one do then if the format of the website changed. Let's say I changed the header or footer file. If I keep mbox files around, I can regenerate the whole archive using the new headers.

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