[Mailman-Developers] == No Subject ==

[Mike Holderness]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:15:56 -0500 (EST) Dale Newfield <Dale at Newfield.org> 
 wrote:

> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Requirements for a new archiver
> 
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Iain Bapty wrote:
> >    6. allow for full-text searching of the archives.
> >    7. allow for filtering by date, author, and/or topic.
> 
> I find any archiver without at least 6 and likely 7 to be unusable, and 
> an incredible waste of the user's time.

But don't let that put you off doing what you can inside 
the 200-hour limit :-) A thread-only archive is better 
than nothing, at least for a small list...

That said, I have my must-have for an archiver:

> >   9. allow archives to be set as public or private.

and my want-a-lot:

> >   3. provide a web-based interface to those email-discussions.

This will be based on HTML templates with variables
in the same style as MailMan? Please?

Mike