[Mailman-Users] How to delete messages from private archives

Barry A. Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Jan 28 01:33:21 CET 2003


>>>>> "JP" == Jim Popovitch <jimpop at rocketship.com> writes:

    JP> Actually my suggestion would be to remove Pipermail (and not
    JP> insert MHonarc, Hypermail, etc.)  MM doesn't include a search
    JP> engine, why a mail archive?  IMHO MM should focus on what it
    JP> already does very very well.

Pipermail isn't horrible any more, and I don't think it would be
/that/ much work to implement a simple search engine.  Simplicity is
the key here -- I'd love a basically functional search feature that
works out of the box.  It needs to be modular so that more advanced
sites can swap in a different search engine (e.g. htdig), just like
they now can do with the archiver.

I don't think we buy much by /removing/ functionality.

-Barry



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