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[Jon]

I'll take a look at MhonArc. ht://dig sounds interesting also. Someone
mentioned using mail2news, which mailman does. Now I had spoken to Jim,
who as far as I know is no longer on the list, a few months back and he
mentioned doing the same thing.

I question is how would this work? Here is my understanding of how it
works. Someone posts to the list using the list address. It get's
distributed to the list and to the news server. Now someone is viewing the
newgroup and they want to reply to someone. Is it going to get distributed
to the mailing list also and not just the news group?

I see there is a setting for this in mailman to allow people to reply
to teh news group AND the list but w/o ever using it before
I'm unsure of it's actual behavior.

Jon


On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Sam Hart wrote:

> 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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