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