Re: mailing list archives

[Xue Fuqiao]

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:
> Xue Fuqiao writes:
>  > Agreed.  I'm not familiar with Mailman, but I think this topic should be
>  > discussed here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman
>
> Please, don't waste our time and yours; the bug will just be closed
> wontfix.  The issues with the stock archiver Pipermail are well-known,
> there are plenty of good alternatives if you can't live with them now
> (it's easy to hook up MHonArc, mail-archive.com, or gmane), and
> Pipermail is end-of-life[1] (as is all of Mailman 2).  Only security
> and easy-fix issues go into Mailman 2 nowadays.  Threading in
> Pipermail is neither.
>
> Mailman 3 will have a completely different stock archive manager (in
> fact, a separate project currently called HyperKitty).  We haven't yet
> decided if it will be bundled, but I think probably it will be.

I see.  Thanks for your information and your patience.

> Footnotes:
> [1]  As much as any free software can be EOLed, of course.

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Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
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