Eric Snow writes:
I consider the ability to search message archives to be essential to effective contribution[.]
+1
There are relevant three aspects to archival and search that are worth asking about here:
1. search functionality on the [archive] web site 2. ability to search using other tools (e.g. my favorite: Google search with "site:...") 3. single archive vs. split archive
I can't speak to 1 and 2, and I can't speak to cost of resource usage for 3, but it would be possible to have a Mailman list that has no subscribers, prohibits subscription, and allows only a small number of authorized posters, one of which would be the Discourse mail feed. As long as Discourse provides the In-Reply-To header field, the current threading algorithm would work reasonably well. I guess we would also want to disable replies in HyperKitty (maybe that's already a consequence of "no subscribers"?) I don't know how hard that would be. Steve