On our call yesterday I mentioned one way to perceive the interface points
for middleware in the mailist space is to imagine a mail list service not
composed of a single application but as a collection of best-of-breed
apps: message distribution engine, archive viewer, and message composition
tool.
This is a link to a 3rd party site that provides list archive services:
http://www.mail-archive.com/about.html
Another method of archiving is via NNTP. This site is another 3rd party
service.
http://gmane.org/about.php
Both of these tools are nice stand alone services that could be collected
into an over mail list service that leverages each of their strengths.
Middleware has the potential for allowing each tool to adhere to a common
definition.
~jpr
