Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> I am wondering if we should bail out of Mhonarc all together. Do we
> actually need it? We have the actual mbox files right? Couldn't we
> build our own parser for whatever?
>
> As a note, mailman also uses mbox files. We could try its archive
> generation capability.
Mailman archives are just as crappy, if not crappier. And they know it.
It's based on Hypermail; I note that Hypermail's latest version happened
on 2003. The Mailman guys are rethinking the issue; see
http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/ModernArchiving
Somebody suggests Lurker as one alternative:
http://lurker.sourceforge.net/
It is a very different interface. Perhaps we could try it as an
experiment. I have seen the Debian lists under it and it feels really
martian.
I don't want to lose Mhonarc, at least not for the moment. It is
powerful and customizable and has served us reasonably well for a very
long time. (Longer than most of us, actually.)
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