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The Mail Archive Converter would be used to gather mail and news archive files from one or more host computers and process them into HTML pages with a graphical, friendly and easy-to-use user interface. Once the HTML pages and indexes were created, they could be put on one or more web servers and be made accessible on the web.
The format of the mail and news archive files are assumed to either be in plain ASCII text (as created by mailbox files of the UNIX mail program and the rn news reader), or translatable to ASCII through a separate filter process. The associations of different messages and articles would allow a single message or article to be part of any number of different web pages. The emails placed in HTML files can be indexed by date, thread, subject, and author.
This program would be of use to anyone who saves mail and news and wants to make the contents available on the web. Users of the system will benefit from the system when they have a set of email messages to make public. For example, a project manager could use this program to record the progress of a project in HTML form, using different pages for different stages of the project. Typical users will have knowledge of their email system, and knowledge of HTML. Most will already be saving their emails to disk, and manually editing them into HTML format. Some example users are:
Two programs that perform a similar function were found through searches using Alta Vista:
UI group homepage:
www.skypoint.com/members/escargo/csci5110.htm
UI group email:
calvin-ui98@dagobah.stwing.upenn.edu
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CSci 5110 UI Design W98 - Initial Proposal
Project Description
The Mail Archive Converter would be used to gather mail and news archive
files from one or more host computers and process them into HTML pages with
a graphical, friendly and easy-to-use user interface. Once the HTML pages
and indexes were created, they could be put on one or more web servers and
be made accessible on the web.
The format of the mail and news archive files are assumed to either be in
plain ASCII text (as created by mailbox files of the UNIX mail program and
the rn news reader), or translatable to ASCII through a separate filter
process. The associations of different messages and articles would allow a
single message or article to be part of any number of different web pages.
The emails placed in HTML files can be indexed by date, thread, subject, and
author.
Target Users
This program would be of use to anyone who saves mail and news and wants to
make the contents available on the web. Users of the system will benefit
from the system when they have a set of email messages to make public. For
example, a project manager could use this program to record the progress of
a project in HTML form, using different pages for different stages of the
project. Typical users will have knowledge of their email system, and
knowledge of HTML. Most will already be saving their emails to disk, and
manually editing them into HTML format. Some example users are:
* Project managers who document their projects with email and html.
* Professors/teachers who want to publish emails of questions from
students on their class web site (along with answers if necessary).
* Professionals who use mailing lists to serve functions similar to
newsgroups.
* People who have needs of discussions via email without complex
cgi-enabled web servers such as students' project teams.
Similar Applications
Two programs that perform a similar function were found through searches
using Alta Vista:
* MHonArc v2.0 at
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~mailutil/MHonArc/mhonarc.html
* Hypermail at http://www.nnic.noaa.gov/hypermail.html
With the current versions of these programs, users must understand a complex
series of command line options that limits the accessibility of the
programs. A graphical user interface will allow more people to use the
program, people to use more of the program, and fewer errors to be made in
program use.
Group Information
UI group homepage: www.skypoint.com/members/escargo/csci5110.htm
UI group email: calvin-ui98@dagobah.stwing.upenn.edu
Members
* David S. Cargo, escargo@network.com , ID adult special, phone
391-1266(W) 699-7676(H)
* Corey Carlson, corey@itlabs.umn.edu , ID 1644073, phone 626-8946(W)
768-8950(H)
* Quang-Tuyen Dang, dang0019@itlabs.umn.edu , ID 1668521, phone
376-0337(H)
* Brad Hokanson, bhokanson@che2.che.umn.edu , ID 0885361, phone
624-4918(W)
* Jeff Rye, ryex0006@itlabs.umn.edu , ID 1757464, phone 920-4836(H)
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