Re: Discourse

[Wol]

On 26/02/2023 06:21, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > But (contrary to a false statement I made about import into
> > Discourse) you can't import mailbox format lists into Discourse
> > simply, because, for example, the creation of users from 25 years
> > ago who most probably no longer have the same email addresses is
> > very problematic for various reasons.

> It's really a pity that such a conversion is not supported, since it
> would be extremely helpful in the long run.  However, e-mail addresses
> shouldn't be exposed in the web interface (the already existing e-mail
> list archive doesn't do that either).  The construction of threads
> rather relies on the 'In-Reply-To:' and 'References:' fields, AFAIK.
That other list I mentioned imported their archives into Discourse - 
they said it would take about 5 hours there was so much, so it sounds 
like they went back quite a way.

I know nothing about how it went, but I'm surprised there isn't some way 
of importing old archives into Discourse, especially as others seem to 
be doing exactly that.

Cheers,
Wol