[Mailman3-dev] Re: [RETRANSMIT] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Debate about Mailman on BytesForAll

[Brad Knowles]

At 5:16 PM -0400 2004-08-26, J C Lawrence wrote:

>  I've spent some time mucking about in this area and it is a minefield.
>  Very simply, throwing out all of the messy details, there is only one
>  operation which is atomic under the network filesystems: creat (2).

	Which is why Nick Christensen built the Earthlink mail system 
around this feature.  See 
<http://www.jetcafe.org/~npc/doc/mail_arch.html>.

	But I don't see how we can build all of Mailman around the same feature.

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