[Mailman-Developers] Re: Future of pipermail?

[J C Lawrence]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:04:31 -0500 
Bill Bumgarner <bbum@codefab.com> wrote:

> 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).

For me WebDAV raises concerns centering around authentication and
access security.  That said, I fail to see either the use or value
in having what is essentially (if I understand it correctly) a
posting tool (ability to post content to a site) *UNLESS* the
archiver is running on a different machine than Mailman (in which
case a networked filesystem would seem a safer/lighter approach).

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