From: "Jan U. Hasecke" <juh+ntg-context@mailbox.org>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Mailing list search software
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 15:44:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ec93272-b399-0b62-e279-a7f4e28c6ff9@mailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12A2465C-D32E-4FA4-ABA2-0355F9E10695@elvenkind.com>
Am 03.10.2016 um 15:03 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:
> Hi all,
>
> After the ConTeXt meeting, we were inventorying the old sub-sites
> of contextgarden.net, in preparation of one or two new ones to appear
> within the next months.
>
> One thing that we used to have was a site that ran the “Lurker”
> software, providing dedicated searching of the mailing list archives
> for context-related mailing lists. That site is now gone (it was
> part of Patrick Gundlach’s server) and we are wondering whether
> it makes sense to revive a site dedicated to mailing list searches.
>
> And if people are indeed interested, we could use some advice on what
> software should we be using for the new site:
>
> * Lurker has not been updated since 2009, making it a fairly bad choice.
>
> * Mailman v2 has a horrible interface, and besides is not handling
> long-running threads properly and has almost no support for attachments.
>
> * Mailman v3 uses HyperKitty as replacement for pipermail. The output
> looks promising, but it is a Django application meant to be tightly
> integrated with the actual mailman instance (at least that is my
> understanding?)
>
> Surely there must be something better out there? Or maybe we should not
> care at all and use Google indexing only like we do now on the wiki?
Recently I saw people using
https://www.sympa.org
From my point of view this is a solution for big mailinglists, but maybe
you will find someone running an installation free for open source projects.
juh
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-03 13:03 Taco Hoekwater
2016-10-03 13:44 ` Jan U. Hasecke [this message]
2016-10-03 13:56 ` Mojca Miklavec
2016-10-03 15:16 ` Jan U. Hasecke
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