Re: email newsletters managed on the web

Hey Selena,

The Webnet archive is archived by hypermail
(http://www.hypermail.org/), a free and relatively easy thing to set
up. You'll need to host it on a server that has the hypermail
software installed. Socrates was the obvious place for this for me.

Here's how I did it:

1) Subscribe a socrates account to the listserv
2) Create a filter in Pine so that the mail from the list goes
directly to it's own folder (this folder name would replace
"foldername" in the command below)
3) Archive that mail folder into your public_html directory with the
following command:

hypermail -m "../mail/foldername" -d "mail-archive" -l "Page Title"

Obviously you can change around how you use the command to suit your
needs. Type "man hypermail" from a socrates prompt to get all your
options.

If you do it my way, you need to change into, or "cd", into your
public_html directory before you do the command. Then change
"foldername" and "Page Title" (or remove -l "Page Title). You can
change "mail-archive" too - that's just the directory you're writing
to.

Since my list is fairly low volume, I archive it manually to sort out
the spam, make corrections, generally screen things, etc. A higher
volume list might call for a cron job or some such thing to automate
the task.

It's not the most beautiful of email archives, but it works and it's
free. You could link to the archive within another site so you'll have
its header and footer and possibly apply a stylesheet. A little
fiddling could go a long way. Hope this helps!

Enjoy!
Audrey

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Audrey Bersot
UC Berkeley Information Systems & Technology
Workstation Support Services
vmail: 510-642-7936
email: abersot@cafe.berkeley.edu

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Selena Chau wrote:

|Hello, I have a question about the webnet listserv. I noticed that
|the webnet listserv messages are archived by the letters and science
|department. Is that a special case? In other words, are online
|archives possible for any listserv? If not, how hard is that to set
|up? Some departments within our institution have email lists, and
|one of them is interested in 1) making them more dynamic and 2)
|having the archive managed online somewhere. I know listservs are
|different than email lists used just for mailing out, but am trying
|to figure out what free resources we can work with already offered
|through Berkeley.
|
|We don't have the resources to develop and host a dynamic HTML email
|list with archives posted to our website right now, so we're looking
|for some good suggestions. Something more brand-able than the free
|Topica resource, and less expensive than the super slick designs of
|e-flux.com or sublit.com.
|
|Thanks,
|
|Selena
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