[Mailman-Developers] Re: Requirements for a new archiver

[Brad Knowles]

At 12:53 AM -0500 2003/10/28, J C Lawrence wrote:

>  For me that came out to inn2, Message-IDs, We:Search, and a mix of a
>  MeoWWW derivative (HTTP) and NNTP straight to inn2.  The critical point
>  is that each bit of that amalgamation is independent and can be
>  trivially swapped out for something else that suits a local use case
>  better.

	One of the hallmarks of mailman is that it provides almost all 
the features anyone would be likely to want, out-of-the-box.  Maybe 
they're not the 100% ideal solution, but they're usually more than 
sufficient.  You get a decent archive solution provided "for free", 
as part of the base package.

	If you throw that out and go with a modular approach based on any 
number of external third-party add-in tools, then you might as well 
go back to Majordomo.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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