Dallas> As a webhosting company we would without a doubt find a lot of Dallas> value in any per-list control. We already get quite a lot of Dallas> requests for this or that customization that's not possible on Dallas> a per list basis now. This particular feature would be great Dallas> as many of our users are not happy with pipermail and it'd be Dallas> nice to point them to a way to easily enable some other Dallas> archiving solution.
Dallas, would you consider applying the existing Sourceforge patch to your mailman installation? It is helpful to get feedback from real live users.
John> And change the naming. "Outside"? I can hear it now: John> "I ain't archiv'n my list with a bunch of furriners". :-)
How about "third party archiving" ?
Brad> Unless, that is, you gateway to USENET news, in which case Google and Brad> others have news archives that you could not control and could Brad> not even be aware of in most cases.
Google Groups honors "X-No-Archive: Yes"
http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/posting_faq.html#prevent