I'm going to disagree a bit with Bernhard Reiter's expressed preferences, but wanted to note up front that "de gustibus non disputandum" probably applies here.

Otherwise I think that mailman doesn't necessarily need to support an archiving and searching web engine. Most people want a ready to go solution and it would be easy to produce that using hypermail and htdig. IMO most people would benefit from having easy to-go instructions for setting up hypermail and htdig.

If it could be packaged together, and all the uid/gid settings reconciled, I could see it. But in fact it was a recent bad experience with hypermail, while moving my organizations web site to a different host, that made me pay attention to the announcements of Mailman. Maybe I got the wrong version of hypermail, or was expecting too much from it in terms of seamlessly absorbing a copied existing archive and picking up from there.

(I guess that I am an advocate of modularisation.) Of course a state of the art mailarchive program in python would be nice. ;)

I always *think* that I favor modularisation, but then end up admiring something that's nicely integrated, and fuming at something modular that doesn't pop together smoothly.

But whether it be a well-behaved hypermail, or pipermail, or their successor from Bernhard's wish-list, I hope that Mailman continues to "know about" the archives -- that is, keep that link to the archives along with the other links on a list's page, and keep the archiving options on each list's management pages along with the other sorts of options.

Mailinglist management: Is there an options to have other posts as coming from the subscriber and the allowed mailing addresses to go to the moderators for approval?

Good idea.

Option HTML page: I don't like that I get a different Webbrowser windows, when I press (Details) . (Okay it is easy to change, but still I wanted to let you know, that I don't like it.) :)

I really like having that come up as a separate "help" window, leaving undisturbed the main window where I'm picking checkboxes. But then, I'm always amazed when I use browser-back to return to some form and it hasn't forgotten my choices so far; maybe I just need more faith :)

--Mitch Marks

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