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[Sam Hart]

Yes, MHonArc is an excellent replacement for Pipermail. One of these days, 
when I have time, I plan to replace Pipermail on tux4kids.net with it.

The one big argument against Pipermail is that it's largely unmaintained, 
and there are a number of /really/ glaring bugs in it. The one that keeps 
biting us at t4k.net is the qrunner race condition bug (I mention it here:
http://tux4kids.net/pipermail/t4k-admin/2003-January/000266.html
but there are better descriptions of it I'm sure).

This bug drives delivery down to a crawl and requires the occassional 
manual clearing of the queue (granted, Jon may have been lucky enough to 
never have to deal with it ;-)

* On 03-11-13, Nick Lopez wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:30:05PM -0700, Jon wrote:
> > I don't know a way to do it other than downloading the raw archive. This
> > brings up another related question. Does anyone know of a better way to
> > archive the list instead of using Mailman's pipermail? It would be nice to
> > be able to easily search the archive.
> 
>   From a "wading through archives found through google" perspective I find
> mhonarc archives tend to be much easier to deal with.  The default config is
> simple and effective and even useful(shock).  Much better than pipermail and
> MARC(.theaimsgroup.net) and lightyears ahead of that steaming pile of crap
> sourceforget uses.
> 
>   Of course, and NNTP gateway couldn't hurt either, or maybe I should try to
> get gname.org to carry it.  Pan beats any web archive, and I assume thats
> true for any usenet reader.
> 
>   - Nick Lopez
>     spamtrap at glowingmonkey.org
> 
>   -- Randomly selected signature --
> Panic now, beat the rush!
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Sam Hart
University/Work addr. <hart at physics.arizona.edu>
Personal addr. <criswell at geekcomix.com>
Alternative <criswell at tux4kids.net>
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