Except that WebDAV isn't really new and it is a ratified standard that
basically everyone is adopting!

(but, yes, I should have included the acronym in the first place!)

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).

b.bum

From: Dan Mick <Dan.Mick@west.sun.com> Date: 2000-11-21 13:00:30 -0800 To: bbum@codefab.com Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: Future of pipermail? CC: Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com>, mailman-developers@python.org X-Accept-Language: en X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U)

WebDAV: stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning", which sort of neatly sums up what Bill was saying about its capabilities. (It's new to me, too. There seem to be two new web-database "environments" a week these days.)