From fholson@cohousing.org Tue Jan 29 15:31:38 2002 From: fholson@cohousing.org (Fred H Olson) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:31:38 -0600 (CST) Subject: [Listadmins] Mailman 2.1 Message-ID: Hi again Rick, I happened to be at the Mailman web page the other day looking at the features MM 2.1 will have. I look forward to the changes. I dont recall when they expected a final MM 2.1 release but I think it is coming up in a few months (?). I was wondering if the installation process of it at CFN ** might include the installation of the Mhonarc archiving package as an alternative to Pipermail and the HtDig search package? The Mailman web site acknowledges that the Mhonarc archiving package (also open source) is better than Pipermail at present (but does not explain why it is not simply used instead of developing Pipermail at all.) See: MHonArc - A Perl mail-to-HTML program with MIME support and many customizable features. Successor to mail2html. http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.doc.html HtDig is open source and pretty good tho it takes more hard disk (and less cpu time) than Glimpse which is not as good generally in my experience. see: ht://Dig - indexing and searching system for a small domain or intranet. http://www.htdig.org/ I dont have expertise installing software (tho I'd be interested in learning or helping). ** (I can't type communityforum.net very easily so I hereby declare that I will use CFN in appropriate contexts unless you have a better abbrev.) Fred -- 1/29/02 The "Crooked" E: How true it is! (Enron T - shirt) More info: http://www.mtn.org/~fholson/sig-detail.htm Fred H. Olson Minneapolis,MN 55411 (near north Mpls) fholson@cohousing.org 612-588-9532 (7am-10pm Cent time) List manager of Cohousing-L & Nbhd-tc Ham radio:WB0YQM