[Mailman-Developers] Hooks for external archivers

[Gareth McCaughan]

>   - (I may be misremembering this one.) I don't think there's any
>     way to process messages incrementally as they arrive, so I'm
>     not sure how you'd use mod_mbox for a busy mailing list. Now,
>     the Apache project seems to use it for a whole lot of busy
>     mailing lists, so maybe this is all fine, but I worry a bit,
>     and I notice that the mail I sent yesterday to dev at httpd.apache.org
>     reporting the aforementioned bug still hasn't appeared in the
>     mod_mbox-based archives, so maybe they handle it by just not
>     running the updater very often.

Actually, that last thing turns out to be at least partly because
dev@ just drops mail on the floor when it comes from unsubscribed
addresses. :-) But comparing with gmane, the mod_mbox-based archive
does seem to be some way behind...

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