I promise to try and do better proof-reading for the emails I post. To correct how my earlier email reads, please interpret the question I asked as:

..what if we could invite/reach out to administrators who've chosen to host their apache project-lists using 'mod_mbox approach' to consider MM3 as a replacement solution?

With any list-admins among those projects tying the projects' mbox files into a mailman page, we'd achieve more users trying mailman, was my only take-away point for that, I guess.

To move into GSOC, I'd like some information on "RSS and/or NNTP access to Mailman archives." - and, more specifically for RSS, is displaying an mbox file being achieved anywhere on-line using mm3 facilities (ie: hyperkitty + django templates?) - I assume yes per mention of the live MM3 instance with 2500 users' existence, but perhaps that only runs the email part and its archives are not web-exposed via archive-interface- was the URL for it mentioned when it was learned of during pycon?

Thanks for your help and sharing more about this functionality! Chris

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Chris Cargile <follybeachris@gmail.com>wrote:

A while back, I proposed contributing to MM3 in the area of archive searching and MM2 backwards -compatibility and am considering further, still:

change: ... what if we could invite/reach out to administrators who've chosen to use (on on mod_mbox approach) to consider MM3 as a replacement solution? This would allow us to grow the base of users by attracting an audience potentially with the resources to provide some nice observations,contributions to MM3's project I'd guess, maybe?

MM3 marketing/capture strategies to rest - to return to researching MM3 alternatives, I evaluate Apache's alternatives as:

• mail-archive.com, markmail (good but kinda proprietary, right?);
• marc (monolithic?);
• and Apache's mod_mbox (GSOC project - 2005)

To expand more, maybe it is required for apache projects to host/use mod_mbox and others, but I am wondering, then, is mail-archive.com really the likely system of choice used in *lots* projects due to searchable-archives function? Can I say 'yay' for up-voting (again) the search function and express a personal appeal towards the ideas @ GSOC ideas (#1,#2 <http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Google+Summer+of+Code+2013> )

I'm quite glad the activity is continuing here! Chris