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Re: Improvements to the mailarch tool, and plans to discontinue the mhonarc archives

Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> Wed, 03 October 2018 23:51 UTC

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Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:51:48 -0400
From: Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca>
To: Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com>
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Subject: Re: Improvements to the mailarch tool, and plans to discontinue the mhonarc archives
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2018, Robert Sparks wrote:

> There have been several improvements to the mailarch tool recently.
> 
> If you haven't already discovered it, please try out the new "Static Mode",
> particularly if you frequently use the Mhonarc archives.
> 
> See, for example, <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/static/ietf/2018-09/>.

This looks great and indeed resolves my need for mhonarc. The only
negative issue is that this initial page load is _very_ slow. I hope
there is some caching happening on the server so that with more people
using these, we won't keep seeing this 20+ seconds load time :)

> To get this view by default when browsing lists, set "Static Mode On" in the
> Settings menu at top right of the page. This preference is stored in a cookie.

This worked as expected.

> We plan to discontinue the use of Mhonarc soon, likely between IETF 103 and 104.
> When we make that change, all exising URLs into the Mhonarc archives will redirect
> to the same message in mailarch as discussed in section 2.7 of RFC6778.

Excellent, thank for you not breaking those long term links!

Paul

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