[Mailman-Developers] any interest in a new built-in web-archive? (i.e. pipermail replacement)

[David Champion]

* On 29 Mar 2012, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: 
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:04 PM, David Jeske <davidj at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> - Merging of forums, archives, newsgroups, and IMAP.
> >
> > You like to bite off the big ones eh? NNTP, then IMAP.
> >
> > Does anyone even use fat-mail-clients anymore?
> 
> Yes, and yes.  But I don't think anybody has really thought carefully
> about these desiderata yet, they're just frequently suggested on
> mailman-users and sometimes mailman-developers.

+1

For what it's worth: I bridged MM archives to IMAP once using UW imapd
and some scripts for proxying Mailman membership data into something
that imapd could use for access control.  When I presented it to this
list it was generally identified as something nobody (w|sh)ould ever
want.  I don't care particularly about the details of what happened in
2002 or whenever it was, but I conclude that the much bigger problem
than building this ship is choosing a destination.  It needs to start
with clear goals, because the wrong implementation is easy.

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