Re: No list archives getting updated at all
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:20:18PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > I'm wondering if there's some IMAP (read-only) access to the lists?
> > It recently occured to me that that would be a Nice Feature(tm), or
> > do I have a flaw in that idea?
>
> I think IMAP on large mailboxes could be quite resource consuming,
> especially stuff like SEARCH.
It could work if there was a backend optimized for this. However, I
don't think there is.
Besides, NNTP is better-suited for it, and BTW is already available at
www.gmane.org.
-- John
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