On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:10 AM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I wonder if it makes sense to post the mailing list archives to Meta-Wiki or some other wiki. It seems to have a number of advantages over the use of pipermail:
- built-in search via Lucene;
- control over the content (including the ability to suppress posts);
- doesn't require rebuilding an archive ever again; and
- it would bypass some of Mailman/pipermail's bugs, such as messages being
truncated if they happen to contain a line that starts with "From".
I see that as kinda pointless (for the reduction dot point), as Mailman sends these out almost instantly (unless that has been changed?) to many hundreds of email subscribers (and the subsequent mirrors), I thought (/have vague memories but possibly getting confused with something) there had already been a discussion within the WMF w/ the older legal counsel about the reductions and that they weren't going to happen for that very reason.
As for the "from truncation" bug, that has been fixed for ages in Mailman from what I hear... It just needed a update (which I have vague memories of us doing) and the archives being rebuilt.