-- Creates a new subdirectory for the current period, entitled
perhaps "YYYYMM"
-- Initializes the main and threaded indexes of the new
subdirectory
-- Adds a link in the top-level HTML file to the main and threaded
indexes of the new subdirectory.
-- Creates a symlink called "current" linking to the "YYYYMM"
subdirectory (so that new messages can always be added to
"current")
I've got a group of things built around procmail, perl, and crontab
that do something similar to this. I'm putting the finishing touches on
it now. You can see the pages at
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibris/
(which is 'not yet official', so bear with us if there are any
downtimes, wierd changes, etc. and please don't further propagate the
URL)
if it looks like you'd be interested, get back to me and I'll try to
gather together all the bits and pieces.
Walter Henry
Stanford University Libraries
