sourceware hardware transition plan, part 1/N

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

>         ezmlm                         mailman
>         mhonarc                       mailman

mailman's built-in archiver is pretty hopeless at URL stability (it may 
well also lack other features such as the linking to a raw text version of 
each message that we've put into our mhonarc configuration).  I advise 
continuing to do web archives through much the same mhonarc configuration 
as at present and hiding any built-in mailman archives as far as possible 
to avoid people posting references to their unstable URLs.

Is it possible to get mailman to assign unique sequence numbers to each 
message to a list like ezmlm does (whether in the envelope return address 
or in a header) so you can readily tell what order messages were supposed 
to be in and whether there are any gaps in the messages you have received, 
or that appear in the list archives?  That's the feature of ezmlm I find 
most useful (other than that, mailman certainly has various advantages).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com