Subject: Re: Change lists to mailman?
From: Seth Vidal (skvidal@phy.duke.edu)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 11:46:15 CDT
> The high quality of the existing hypermail archive UI is a *huge* asset of
> our current setup that I'd really, really hate to compromise in any way.
> Not only does Google have links to past postings, but a decent chunk of
> existing posts *in* the archive have explicit references to earlier
> discussions.
>
> Don't get me wrong -- it's clear that mailman/pipermail is easier to
> *administer* than our current majordomo/hypermail setup. In fact, not long
> after we first set up these archives, Shaw really wanted to switch to
> mailman for exactly this reason. However, at the time, pipermail just
> wasn't up to the job.
>
> If pipermail integration has now evolved to the point where we can do a
> truly invisible upgrade (has it?), then that's really cool news.
well you can use an external archiver (hypermail, mhonarc, etc) for
archiving w/mailman. The setup information is in the FAQ iirc.
-sv
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