CVS, Mailman, and HTML

[Fred]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 09:07, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
...
> > We use Mailman extensively for all our lists, but we archive them all to
> > an IMAP mailbox.  For every mail list, we specifically shut off the
> > Mailman archive option, but subscribe an alias of
> > <listname>@lists.foo.com where 'lists.foo.com' is handled by the MTA
> > which directs all mail of this form to be handled by cyrus rather than
> > by Mailman (since they're both on the same box).
> 
> Well, this is a good idea, but I have some issues with it. First, it
> requires a "group" account for access to the mailbox. Group accounts
> lead to problems because people can delete the e-mails, they can move
> them to a local folder, etc. I don't think that it is a matter of
> malicious intent, but rather, normal behavior. You read an e-mail, you
> either file it or delete it. 
> 
> Not that this idea doesn't have merit. It was actually my original
> course of action. My original plan was to have the cvs diffs sent to the
> team leads and have them filtered into public folders. Unfortunately,
> that was too much of a single point of failure. That's when the mailing
> lists came into play. Everything works as it should, except this one
> minor point. OK, so it isn't that minor, but I'm sure it can be fixed!
> 
> C-Ya,
> Kenny

Any reason why you can't set up CVS diffs to post to a locally run INN
"usenet" news group? Seems to me it would resolve all the issues of
group access, etc. And mailman has support for newsgroups as well.

Sorry if this was mentioned already.
 
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