[Mailman-Developers] rsync'able Mailman archive

[Brad Knowles]

At 11:59 AM +0800 2003/10/04, Andy Sy wrote:

>  Is making the archive rsync'able a responsibility of the
>  list administrator

	Yes.  It's a file.  That level of control should be left to the 
OS and how you configure standard tools like rsync or ssync.

>                     or... wouldn't it be better to build
>  such support in Mailman (to allow people who are OC
>  about getting the complete list to save time and avoid
>  wasting gobs of bandwidth)?

	Do you really want to include all the rsync code into mailman?  I 
don't think so.

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Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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