[Mailman-Developers] Re: Future of pipermail?

[Dan Mick]

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

Ah, well, new is in the timespan of the beholder.  To me, Web-based
anything is "relatively new"....

> (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).

Yeah, I understand the point.  But understand that virtually everyone
claims ubiquity long before they actually have it, too...

I'll research some more about the web servers I use.