a casual coder

The Mailman archive is not always implemented on mailing lists (although on perl-mongers it is), but often it would be advantageous to have something slightly more accessible, and more importantly something more open to the non-perl community.

I found The Mail Archive some while back which members of certain non-programming groups I am on have found an easy way to keep on top of posts to their mailing lists rather than reading emails mixed in with other emails & having to generally handle them on a daily basis. So I added the za-pm group to this. Now with some posts stacked up you can see how it displays.

Use is simplicity itself, just add archive@mail-archive.com as a member and all else is handled automagically. Put a link on the bottom of every post and you are set for the members to pick it up.

I'm not claiming this is the best such solution, there are others, but it works nicely and the display format is neat. I hope that this will make za-pm more visible to the world both within and without the perl community.