[Listadmins] Mailman 2.1

[Fred H Olson]

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

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