[Mailman3-dev] Flexible data storage

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 14:14, Dale Newfield wrote:

> A mailing list package is a tool for distributing messages.  It is the
> pipeline through which messages pass.  As such it should be described by
> the pipeline, not by the items passing through it.  While I agree two of
> the most basic concepts in the system are lists and subscribers, I am
> completely unconvinced that this system should contain the messages
> passing through it once the tool has done it's job.

I think we've identified use cases in the past where Mailman wants
access to a message store.  Thus I believe it is in our interest to
define an interface which allows Mailman to read and write the message
store data it will be interested in.

-Barry