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| What is Hypermail? |
One of the first integrations of
the web with email, Hypermail turns standard mailing lists
into published web accounts and institutional records of conversations.
It has thread and link finding algorithms that can be found
in most modern mail and threaded discussion systems today.
It was distributed freely
and widely in the early web years, and is now has an active open
source community extending it. Tom designed and built the
first version in Lisp in 1994; Kevin
Hughes rewrote it in C and convinced our management that
releasing it as open source was a good idea. It was used
to publish and archive the early
email discussions (such as www-talk) that shaped the creation
of the WWW. Once released to the public, it took off. |
| Current activity |
Tom hasn't done anything to Hypermail since its first release.
It has been ported to several languages, and seems to
thrive in Python as part of a popular suite of open-source
collaboration tools. See hypermail-project.org for
current activity. |
| 15 minutes of fame |
Hypermail and pipermail (its Python derivative)
are mentioned in over 13 million pages in the Google index. |
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