[Mailman-Users] Approve subscription requests via mail

[Jim Popovitch]

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 22:50 -0600, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 5:02 PM -0500 11/19/06, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 
> >  What he said!
> 
> Sorry, guy.  I wish there was a way to un-ring that bell.
> 
> >                 It sucks that bin/arch is not reproducible, but
> >  that's something I'd like to address in a future release.  The trick
> >  will be to see if we can provide a reliable mapping from the old urls
> >  to whatever new url scheme we choose.
> 
> I think we could put up with "one last change", to a new format that 
> was pretty much guaranteed to be self-consistent no matter how many 
> times you wipe and rebuild the archives.

How about having MM add a header to each email (List-Archive-UID) that
is generated as MM processes each email, and added to the headers
written to the mbox file.  Then have bin/arch use that ID to (re)create
each html file.

-Jim P.