[Mailman-Developers] A few mailman issues

[J C Lawrence]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:39:38 +0200 (CEST) 
Dan Ohnesorg <dan@feld.cvut.cz> wrote:

> I think, the pipermail should be definietly removed from
> mailman. It is mutch better to use some external archiver. You
> will have match more stable mailman without pipermail.

While I agree that Pipermail is feture poor and, umm, in general
sucks, there is also a definite value to having an archiver, even
such a poor one, be an implicit part of Mailman -- if only for new
list admins who instantly get something that is *usable* (if not
friendly) and thereby can instantly have their lists archived and
indexed without having to confront the complexities of MHonArc or
Hypermail.

I consider Pipermail to be one of the features of Mailman which make
it is easily recommendable to new list admins:

  -- they get instant if minimal archiving functionality
  -- by default all their list mail is preserved in a
     portable/standardised format (mbox)
  -- it is very easy to later put in a more full featured archiver
     ala MHonArc/Hypermail.
  -- If/when they do move to an external archiver, their old mail is 
     preserved in a form easy to run thru the new archiving system
     to gen the new archives.

> When someone will corect my poor english, I can write
> mailman-archiving howto for mailman-MHonArc cooperation.

Sure.

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