GNU Mail Lists (fwd)

Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 13:57:54 -0700
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@cue.bc.ca>
To: David Potter <potter@csuite.ns.ca>, csuite-dev@chebucto.ns.ca
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On Oct 1, 10:16pm, David Potter wrote:
} 
} I saw a reference to the "GNU Mailing List Manager" in the upcoming
} USENIX/LISA'98 conference presentations. Hadn't heard of it before,
} but a quick search turned up http://www.list.org/. The product is 
} beta and a 1.0 release, but here's the feature list:
} 
}   o	An extensive web-based user interface that is customizable on a
} 	per-list basis. 
} 
}   o	A web-based list administration interface for all admin-type
} 	tasks, including list configuration, moderation, and so on. 
} 
}   o	Automatic web-based hypermail-style archiving, including 
} 	provisions for private archives. 

     These sound neat.  Not totally necessary, but would be nice.

}   o	Integrated fast bulk mailing (useful for sendmail users). 

     Now, this is really nice.  The is one of my biggest peeves with
majordomo.  It doesn't really handle a mailing list, it's just a way
of automating management of ":include:" lists.

}   o	Smart spam protection. 

     This is good, majordomo has none.

}   o	Multiple list owners and moderators are possible. 

     Sounds like this is going to be a real mailing list manager.

}   o	Nice about which machine you subscribed from if you're from the
} 	right domain. 

     This would be really nice.

     One of the things I don't like about majordomo is that it is a
huge bloated PERL script that has had many problems.  I don't think
PERL is suitable for large system daemons.  I noted that MailMan is a
Python script.  I wonder if it is going to suffer from many of the
same problems that majordomo has/had.  It would also mean adding a
Python interpreter to CSuite.

}-- End of excerpt from David Potter


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