Mailing Lists

[Todd Underwood]

folx,

not to cause too much trouble (and believe me, i dislike mailman as much 
as the next guy), but...

here's what people say they want to accomplish:

-an easy-to-find, easy-to-subscribe-to list
-hosted at a reliable net location
-with archives

so, can i ask:  why not host the list @sourceforge.net?

right now the project page for this project is at sourceforge and it's a 
great way to make the project easier to find and easier to support.  i 
know that i, for one, had a hard time finding this list *precisely* 
because it is *not* one of the two lists listed on the sourceforge 
project lists page.

do the current project leaders not have access to the sourceforge project 
admin status?  is there some obvious reason that i'm missing why the cvs, 
distributions files, FAQ, and lists shouldn't all be at the same, public, 
easy-to-find place?  there's probably some obvious answer that has 
been discussed before that i don't know cause i can't find any complete 
archives for this list! :-)

t.

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, David Relson wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:50:40 -0500
> From: David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com>
> To: "bogofilter at aotto.com" <bogofilter at aotto.com>
> Subject: Re: Mailing Lists
> 
> At 06:23 AM 3/12/03, Matthias Andree wrote:
> 
> > > To complicate matters he can't subscribe to the lists.  He's tried but
> > > there's no response.  I've sent a message to Adrian to see what he can do
> > > and I'm thinking it may be time to find a new host/site for the list.  I'm
> > > even entertaining the possibility of doing it myself and have been reading
> > > about ezmlm, mailman, and majordomo2.  It can't hurt to learn more.
> >
> >I'd prefer ezmlm-idx, because it has remote-administration features and
> >works without web-interface, it needs a qmail-local to feed it, but can
> >talk to Postfix-QMQPd and I also have a rough Perl script one could use
> >to let ezmlm-idx feed into some other MTA's "sendmail" command.
> >
> >I find mailman quite inconvenient to administer, although that may have
> >changed since the last time I've used mailman seriously (that was 1.1,
> >it's now at 2.1).
> >
> >majordomo2 is under development, and I can't say how far it's come till
> >now, and finally, there are also Sympa and Petidomo that I haven't used
> >in production yet.
> 
> Matthias,
> 
> Yesterday I did the old Freshmeat search for mailing lists and downloaded 
> source for ezmlm, mailman, and majordomo2.
> 
> I also ran across demime, noticed Nick Simicich's name, and followed the 
> link to squawk.com.  There I learned that he's successfully using 
> majordomo2 and is very happy with it.  Obviously its usable and works well 
> or he wouldn't be using it.
> 
> Reading the docs of the 3 MLM's, I knew Adrian is using ezmlm and that 
> gives it a head start.  The dependency on qmail knocked it out of the 
> running.  However Matthias' info changed _that_.  So it's back in the 
> candidate list.
> 
> Can you send me the perl script?  Time for some experimentation...
> 
> David
> 
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todd underwood, sr. vp & cto
oso grande technologies, inc.
todd at osogrande.com

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