[Mailman-Developers] Re: 2006 archives already online!

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "BAW" == Barry A Warsaw <barry@digicool.com> writes:

    BAW> So my proposal is to

    BAW> - get rid of clobber_date as a list-specific variable

    BAW> - add a site variable ARCHIVER_CLOBBER_DATE_POLICY which

    BAW> - add a site variable ARCHIVER_ALLOWABLE_SANE_DATE_SKEW which

Oh yeah, the defaults would be

ARCHIVER_CLOBBER_DATE_POLICY = 2
ARCHIVER_ALLOWABLE_SANE_DATE_SKEW = days(90)

so if the message had a Date: header earlier or later than 90 days
from now, it would get the header overridden.  Note that this munging
happens before the message is handed to the archiver, and it occurs
regardless of whether Pipermail or an external archiver handles it.
The original Date: header will be put on X-Original-Date (does that
need to be configurable?)

-Barry