[Mailman3-dev] User interface for mailing list archives

[Robin Munn]

It's been a while since I had any time to look at Mailman, and from the
silence of this list, it seems I'm not the only one. Let's remedy this
situation with some discussion. :-)

I've long felt that Mailman's built-in Web interface to the archives was
poor to middling at best. It works, but it could be so much better. I
was going to sit down and try to design a better way to do mailing list
archives, but then I came across the Lurker project
(http://lurker.sourceforge.net/) and realized that someone else had
already done the hard work. To see Lurker in action, check out
http://webwareforpython.org/archives/list/sqlobject-discuss.en.html

Lurker is GPL'ed, but it's written in C++, so just incorporating it
wholesale into Mailman 3 would likely be a non-trivial exercise. But we
could certainly learn from its interface.

Am I the only one who's dissatisfied with the current state of Mailman's
archive pages, or do others feel the same way? Anyone else know of other
mailing list archivers that we could learn lessons from?

-- 
Robin Munn
rmunn at pobox.com