> > > Before I go down this rabbit hole: was there any particular > > > reason (back in the day) that Pipermail was favoured (and > > > implemented) over MHonArc. > > > > Mailman was initially implemented by John Viega in the mid 1990s to > > manage a mailing list for fans of the Dave Mathews Band. I don't know > > why pipermail was chosen, but MHonArc was fairly new at that time and > > pipermail was probably more mature.
> I doubt that Hypermail (the original code) was more mature than > MHonArc, but it was written in Python and so considered more > appropriate for bundling with Mailman. ... > As far as I can recall, Pipermail never been especially recommended > over 3rd party solutions like MHonArc or external services like > mailarchive.com, it's just easy to use because it's guaranteed to be > there, we provide support for it, and it turned out to be "good > enough" for an awful lot of lists. > Many thanks Steve and Mark. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
