On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:04:31 -0500 Bill Bumgarner bbum@codefab.com wrote:
The key with WebDAV is that use therein means that you can point WebDAV enabled Mailman at Zope, IBM's websphere, Apache+mod_dav, or any of the other WebDAV enabled HTTP servers out there and it should "just work" (assuming they did the implementation right). There is nothing proprietary about the solution and choosing it as a foundation for archival/management of messages/attachments opens doors (instead of closing doors).
For me WebDAV raises concerns centering around authentication and access security. That said, I fail to see either the use or value in having what is essentially (if I understand it correctly) a posting tool (ability to post content to a site) *UNLESS* the archiver is running on a different machine than Mailman (in which case a networked filesystem would seem a safer/lighter approach).
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