I know the devs on Mailman were working on search capabilities, but considering that their own archives are not yet searchable, I'd say they aren't there yet! Second that Meetup is as a terrible mailing list format.
I could go either way, assuming there is a box that is available anyway, so we aren't adding cost by using Mailman. The search thing is a little bit of a pain, but otoh, I do like sticking with the open source solution, plus Mailman is written in Python! cheers, Maria On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Pat Tressel <ptres...@myuw.net> wrote: > > > why bother? >> the archives are already available to subscribers. >> just move all the new discussions onto google groups. >> > > Because it sounds like people want to shut down mailman, and maybe its web > service. IIRC the files are in mbox format not plain text, and are usually > read via the mailman web front end. Another advantage is that mailman > doesn't have built-in search capability and Google Groups does. (It > definitely did not in the past and a brief check doesn't find it now.. > Yes, one can find / write a script and tweak the mailman archive web page > to add a search box.) If it's ok to leave the mailman web service running, > and if people don't mind using web search to find info in the archives, and > don't mind looking in two places for info, or don't care about finding old > info, then please feel free to ignore the suggestion. > > Meetup is good for events. It is not so good as a mailing list or forum > -- the posts are batched oddly (multiple groups together), it's hard to > reply via email, and it's hard to follow threads. There are also post > length limits in places. > > -- Pat > -- Maria Mckinley Software Developer with Bonus SysAdmin Experience www.mariakathryn.net www.linkedin.com/in/mariamckinley
