Re: [Mailman-Developers] Patch for Mail Archive mirroring

Fil wrote:

I would see it that way, in the "Archiving" section of admin :

 Archiving on a foreign system :
 -------------------------------

   prevent archiving on foreign systems   yes []  no [x]
           (adds a X-NO-Archive: header)

   if no,
   send all mails to archive on the following address(es):
           [ ................ ]
           e.g. archiver@mail-archive.org, thingy@gmane.plop, and so on
           see http://mail.org/foreign_archives/ for more information

(Without stating an opinion on if it is a good idea in *this* case or not to add this functionality, I'd like to share an opinion about the nature of the selections.)

The sequence of "prevent" "no" "if no" can be confusing. I can see list managers accidentally setting this wrong and then coming to -users asking for help. I think it would be less confusing to have it read like this:

Archiving on a foreign system :
  -------------------------------

    allow archiving on foreign systems   NO []  YES[X]
  	   if NO mailman adds a X-NO-Archive: header
 	   if YES,
       send all mails to archives via the following address(es):
            [ ................ ]
            e.g. archiver@mail-archive.org, thingy@gmane.plop, and so on
            see http://mail.org/foreign_archives/ for more information

jc