Re: Transferring messages to web-forum

On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Brent Chapman <[email protected]> =
wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Ed Kasky <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Hal wrote:
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>>> I've been running a Majordomo driven mailing list for several years =
but
>>> for various reasons have decided to continue my forum discussions in =
a
>>> web-based forum instead, then close down the mailing list.
>>> However, it would be great if I could also transfer all the archived =
list
>>> messages over to the web-forum so that users could search for =
previous
>>> discussions etc.
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>>> Are there easy ways to do this? And which web-forum software does it =
work
>>> with?
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>> Have you looked at Mhonarc?  http://www.mhonarc.org/
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>> "MHonArc is a Perl mail-to-HTML converter. MHonArc provides HTML mail
>> archiving with index, mail thread linking, etc; plus other =
capabilities
>> including support for MIME and powerful user customization features. =
"
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> MHonArc is great, but it isn't a web forum.  It's an email archive
> publishing tool; it's what I use to publish the archives of this list
> and all the others here at GreatCircle.com, in fact
> (http://www.greatcircle.com/lists/majordomo-users/archive.html).
> There isn't any interactive "forum" component to MHonArc, though; it's
> a batch-mode program that you run hourly/daily/whatever out of cron,
> to create navigable HTML versions of your text-based email archives.
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> -Brent

Good point.  When I read the email I saw the "search for previous =
discussions" part and missed the forum format part.  It's what I get for =
going through the previous day's emails too quickly...

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