July 29, 1999
11:17 p.m.
"CL" == Christopher Lindsey <lindsey@ncsa.uiuc.edu> writes:
CL> I don't think so, although it might be useful to use different
CL> archiving mechanisms for internal vs. external.In that case, we might be able to add a Default.py variable to control this.
CL> It's an icky approach, though... Like he mentions, it's
CL> pre-filtering based *and* requires admin permissions to modify
CL> anything. If it has to be hacked, I prefer to subscribe a
CL> known alias or account to the list, then have that call a
CL> .procmailrc file (which can call other files writeable by the
CL> Web group, etc.)
CL> What we're trying to do is generalize Mailman's archiver
CL> enough so that you can drop any binary into pipermail's place.A laudable goal.
BTW, I just converted my first mbox to HTML using MHonArc. There are some things I don't like (where are the by-author and by-date archives? Can I split my months and give an overview similar to Pipermail? Perhaps I can and haven't read enough of the manual...)
-Barry