J C Lawrence <claw@cp.net> wrote:
While I agree that Pipermail is feture poor and, umm, in general sucks, there is also a definite value to having an archiver, even such a poor one, be an implicit part of Mailman
I agree 100%. We run a bunch of mailing lists here. Time to invest in managing those lists is extremely limited. We used to use majordomo/hypermail. One of the best things in my mind about switching to mailman is that now instead of administering two software packages, we can adminster one. Maybe pipermail isn't the best archiver in the world, but it's sure good enough for our purposes (which are pretty simplistic, but then again, I suspect most people who want to archive mailing lists have equally simplistic needs). To remove it from the mailman distribution would be a big mistake.
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