Brad Knowles wrote:
>>> Archiving and MLM (Mailing List Manager) functionality can be
>>> orthogonal to each other.
>> I can imagine - but have never used - a mailing list where access to
>> past emails is 'orthogonal' to the use of the mailing list.
>
> Majordomo, older versions of Mailman, as j
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 14:17 -0400, John Dennis wrote:
> ... don't forget for those folks who dislike
> pipermail one can with minimal effort use an external archiver.
Oh, and I should have added that one of the beefs with using an external
archiver is the disjoint UI between mailman and the archi
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 13:45 -0400, Brad Knowles wrote:
> [ snip discussion of fixing pipermail and alternate archivers ]
> But this is a pretty big undertaking.
I'm 100% with Brad on this, this is a huge chunk of work, probably a
project in its own regard. Would you really finish this during yo
Ethan quoted John Dennis:
>> It's not at all clear to me that mailman should be responsible for
>> archiving.
>
> While I am somewhat in agreement, the current situation is that
> archiving comes bundled with mailman and represents a significant
> weakness in its current web UI. Not doing anything
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On Jul 5, 2006, at 6:37 PM, emf wrote:
>> I seem to
>> recall this is also Barry's preference who noted the existing
>> pipermail
>> was only a stop-gap solution so there would be some default archiver,
>> but it was never the intention Mailman woul
John Dennis wrote:
> It's not at all clear to me that mailman should be responsible for
> archiving.
While I am somewhat in agreement, the current situation is that
archiving comes bundled with mailman and represents a significant
weakness in its current web UI. Not doing anything about the web
