[Koha-devel] OT: Web archiver for the Koha-Patches list has "eaten" part of a post of mine

[MJ Ray]

Ricardo Dias Marques <lists at ricmarques.net> wrote:
> I just noticed that the Web archiver (Pipermail) for the
> "Koha-Patches" mailing list has "eaten" (deleted, cropped...) part
> (the second "half") of a post of mine. The post has been sent through
> Gmail. [...] Any ideas for why this has happened?

1. pipermail is buggy and the Mailman developers ignore even simple
bugfixes (I submitted a patch years ago but the bug continues);

2. Googlemail is arguably buggy and triggers one of the pipermail
bugs.  I forget the exact details of the Googlemail bug, but I do
remember Google seemed to argue their implementation was valid and -
as I wrote - it is arguable rather than a clear-cut bug.

Workarounds including replacing pipermail with lurker or one of the
other systems, but there are already other archives.  The real fix is
to fix pipermail, but that's a big job and it doesn't seem it would
ever be included in Mailman.  Of course, Google's preferred solution
is for everyone to use GoogleGroups, but that's absurd.

I suspect the post may be intact in the mbox download, but sometimes
they're not.

Hope that explains,
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