On 16/02/2018 06:51, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Perhaps a silly question, but why retire the MHonArc archives at all? > > - Lots of lists run multiple archives > > - I've been running MHonArc archives on a few dozen lists, for decades - > with pretty much zero attention required - they just run themselves; > they don't even take up that much disk space > > It's not like there's a serious burden in keeping the MHonArc archives - > in administrative labor, or disk space (not a lot of images or large > files on the IETF lists) - so why not just keep them running? Exactly. Even though the new archive is constantly improving, its UI and underlying concept are so fundamentally different to MHonArc that it can *never* do what MHonArc does best (and vice versa). Don't fight it. Run both. Make everybody happy. Regards Brian Carpenter Department of Computer Science The University of Auckland http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~brian/ (I am currently sending all mail from this address due to a Gmail bug. I can still receive via Gmail.)
