[Mailman-Users] Rebuilding archives, stop mailman?

[Dewhirst, Rob]

> My suggestion to minimize impact is to create a copy of the 
> .mbox file in another directory, edit it as needed. Shut down 
> mailman, move the file over to where it needs to be using the 
> mv command. Restart mailman.
> 
> Better safe than sorry.

that very close to my plan -- I've already done the editing and /arch
--wipe on a test system, but my main question was whether or not mailman
should be running while the arch script was running.  Sounds like it's
not a good idea, which was my suspicion.