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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jan 07, 2011, at 07:26 AM, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>>Another possibility is to move from a static-file archiver to just
>>delivering views on the messages dynamically, which would likely make
>>a lot of things easier; we've been investigating highly scalable db's
>>- Cassandra in particular - that would offset any scaling concerns.
>
> Yes.  We've discussed that a few times over the years in the Mailman mailing
> lists and it would be very beneficial for a number of reasons (takedowns,
> improved email obfuscation, additional dynamic linking, etc.)  When Pipermail
> was originally written, it wasn't feasible to do, but certainly machines are
> fast enough now, especially with caching.

mmm, generally 'fast enough' depends on algorithms IMO :).

> On archiver-dev a few months ago, Bill Janssen also floated the idea of using
> uplib <http://uplib.parc.com/> as a foundation for a better, dynamic archiver.

Thats an interesting project; dunno if its suitable for LP, but
certainly it would do for moderate sized list hosts.

-Rob